heather. i can tell you the latest is friends and family say that it cops as no surprise that people are calling landsberry a hear row. dozens of people came together last night for a vigil to remember the 8th grade math teacher. he was also a soccer coach. police say landsberry, who was 45 years old, served in the marines, also a member of the nevada national guard, saying he tried to talk the shooter down. seconds later he was shot and killed hyped sparks middle school. landsberry leaves behind a wife, two stepdaughters. the governor ordered flags at half-staff this week. school has been canceled for rest of the week, heather. >> what about the shoot itself and the shooter what, do do we know? >> reporter: at this point there is still a lot of unknowns when it comes to the shooter. what we know this happened around 7:15 yesterday, 15 minutes before school was supposed to start. shots rang out. we're told the shooter is a middle school student. he shot and killed landsberry. he also shot two

heather: bye. jon: and we begin this edition of "happening now" with a fox news alert, awaiting president obama. he is in the state dining room there at the white house surrounded mostly by white house staff, we understand, they're all back if business today. -- in business today. good morning, i'm jon scott. jenna lee, how you doing in new york? jenna: i'm going well, jon. nice of you to get a closer look to washington, d.c., waking up a day after the shutdown and now seemingly back to business. but how long that will last is a big question. and, jon, as we've been talking about timeline wise, we only really get through the holidays, and then negotiations have to start all over again. so we'll see what the next few days, weeks bring us.

after heather's death she led the effort that resulted in the passing of heather's law which made domestic violence education a requirement in indiana high schools. >> i'm trying to educate the young people on what a healthy relationship is and the signs they need to look for and what to do and that there are people out there that care and there are resources for them to turn to. when you're in abusive relationship and you decide to go back, you are going the hear the words i'm sorry. i've changed. i'll never do it again. i love you. and you want to believe it. so you end up going back and i believe that's what heather did. >> i mean she loved me. i know she did. when she -- when she was -- after she got off me i had stabbed her right here she lay down. ahead her in my arms and before she died she said i love you and those were her last words. >> during his sentencing one of the things that he did say was heather's last words that i love you, josh. i will never believe that. i have nightmares that heather's last moments was calling out for me to help her because she had done that so many t

let's go down to heather cox with the winning coach right now. >> heather: thanks so much. coach, congratulations. 18 consecutive wins but you knew you'd be good tonight. how did you get them to rise to the challengy. >> just college football. hats off to northwestern. whatever has been said about northwestern of hold this is a great environment, great football game. >> heather: came on a night when your first offensive touchdown didn't come until the third quarter. what adjustments did you make to turn things around? >> turned the ball over a little bit but it was a great game. great game. >> heather: you said wouldn't be available and would have to ride carlos hyde. you did, 25 carries, career high. how important was his performance? we turned the ball over. great team win. >> heather: first time you trailed all season long. how does a win like this and the way it came help you guys further down the season? >> it's a street fight. 12-rounder that any time you go 12 rounds with someone and survive it you're tougher. >> heather: here's your workhorse tonight, congratulation

>> no. >> we want to make sure you're safe. >> this is your choice, heather. if you want out now, we'll make phone calls and nobody will know where you went and you'll be safe. >> if you want to make the choice later, that's okay. >> thank you guys. >> unfortunately, the task force can see heather is either too scared or paralyzed to make a change tonight. >> we'll go this way. >> before heading out the door and back to miko, heather agrees to sit down for an interview. >> so when we first entered the room, you were screaming. >> yeah. i was screaming. >> so you screamed that he raped you. >> well, he forcefully pushed me onto the ground and i didn't know what that was at first. and then he says, you're under arrest after he's on top of me. it was, like, get off me, get off me. so i thought, okay, this is some weird guy just trying to rape me. and i got mad at the cops for doing this. so i said that. but of course i didn't mean it. he did not rape me. >> our interview with heather is briefly interrupted when police walk miko down the hallway. his very presence

it just felt like it was coming so fast. >> heather has only one option. she must outrun the avalanche before it steamrolls over her. >> go, go, go, go, go! straight, straight, straight! >> the only thing that i even thought of doing was pointing my board, pointing it straight. and just -- i was not going to sit down. i was not going to fall. >> i could hardly see heather at that moment. i was terrified. all i could think was please, please make it, heather. >> at the bottom of the mountain with his camera trained on heather, ben sparling looks on in horror. >> when she dropped in and the avalanche triggered, it went from riding as high as you can be to instant fear. >> go, go, go, go, go! >> if heather falls, disaster is all but guaranteed. >> straight, straight! >> but heather has set her mind on making it down the mountain. >> i didn't have time to worry. i just knew that the mountain was coming down. you just went into survival mode almost. >> incredibly heather's able to build up enough speed and get down the hill, leaving the snow mass behind her. >>

heather? >> former nfl star aaron hernandez back in court today. prosecutors want him to step aside site ago history of an taggism toward macauley. the defense's request is ridiculous an intimidation tactics. the former tightened has pleaded not guilty to the murder of o ogden lloyd. >>> the federal government is getting involved. workers hit saturday by a train which was running in automatic road during a transit worker strike one of the victims was crossing the ticket line to do his job when he was hit. the transportation safety board is responding. an employee reported seeing an unconscious women in a fire escape one week before a dead body was found in that exact spot. lynn spaulding was a missing patient and eventually found in that stairwell. spaulding disappeared from her room september 21st two-days after being admitted. her body was found in the locked stairwell. police belief she had been dead for several days and was not a victim of foul play. >>> two convict the kidders who escap -

and heather mcgee. norm, i must go to you first. it's amazing. ted cruz clips, we hear them and we're chuckling, so transparent and insincere, yet he holds considerably spray in the republican party. is his influence on the rise? >> i must say, looked at my calendar to see if it's april 1st, april fool's day and not halloween. i think he's on the rise. frightening. if you look at all the putative presidential candidates, the vote, the debt problem, they voted against it. that includes paul ryan in the house, rand paul and marco rub yochlt but marco rubio, who is not a dumb guy has looked at the territory out there. first moved away to get to the right of cruz, now he's dropped his own immigration bill. these guys all believe that the future for the next few years of the party is over on the radical side of the right. who is the top leader? it's ted cruz. if you look at the mean developed with rush limbaugh, sean hannity and others, after the disaster and nearly something worse, our spineless leaders cave just on the verge of victory. ted cruz wou

heather? >> diane macedo joins us this morning. thank you. >> the time now is 15 minutes until the top of the hour. fired for doing the right thing? meet the wal-mart worker who said it happened to him. >> plus two of hollywood's biggest action stars team up for the first time on the big screen. we sit down with arnold schwarzenegger and sylvester stallone coming up next. >> quite the lineup, right brian? >> absolutely. sounds great. i have to tell you what is coming up on our show of gather around it will be a great friday edition of our show. the crew will be, woulding. we want to know with the government shut down should lawmakers be forced to return their checks? we will find out what you think at home. homes are more expensive than ever before for america's middle class. we are going to find secret neighborhoods that you definitely will be able to afford. pretty good. then a new study finds when it comes to boozman knee people can't tell how much is too dr. mark seigel will be here. plus chris wallace is going to be here, and

in oakland, heather ishimaru, abc7 news. >> heather, wishful thinking. >>> as the daily strike talk continues bart riders are growing more and more frustrated. they are waiting to see if the trains will be running in the morning. nick talked with a bunch of them and joins us in daly city now. nick? >> i can tell you i met people who live in all different parts of the city. they have to get to various places. they say it is this uncertainty that hangs over their head like a dark cloud. >> it has been frustrating for me because i get off at 7:00 in the morning. i work in the city. do i catch the bart? >> very frustrating because i live across the bay and i have to make arrangement. i have to stay in the city so i can go to work. >> not knowing before you get to bed because god know hows you will get to work the next day. >> as heather mentioned the federal mediator asked both sides not to discuss where they are in the negotiation process with the public. we don't know how close they are in an agreement which means we could be in the same position again tomorrow. in daly city, nick smith, abc7 n

heather ishimaru is live in oakland. hetter, walk us through -- heather, walk us through what happened. >> anyone concerned about a strike the latest developments are disappointing. the kind of thing that makes your heart sink. the unions are accusing bart of pulling the rug out from under neat them and bay area commute -- underneath them and the bay area commuters at the last minute. after back to back 12-hour bargaining days, bart's hired chief negotiator left at 9:45. tom hawk said see you in the morning to reporters and followed by grim-faced union members who said last night they had actually been closing in on a deal. >> today the unions came to the bargaining table with a hope we could close the gap and reach a final agreement. we were taken a back when bart management backed up and withdrew their offer claiming to be confused the day before. there was no confusion. instead bart's hired gun hawke lied to the unions and shattering the fragile framework of an agreement. >> it is not true that we had a proposal on th

heather ishimaru is live in oakland. hetter, walk us through -- heather, walk us through what happened. >> anyone concerned about a strike the latest developments are disappointing. the kind of thing that makes your heart sink. the unions are accusing bart of pulling the rug out from under neat them and bay area commute -- underneath them and the bay area commuters at the last minute. after back to back 12-hour bargaining days, bart's hired chief negotiator left at 9:45. tom hawk said see you in the morning to reporters and followed by grim-faced union members who said last night they had actually been closing in on a deal. >> today the unions came to the bargaining table with a hope we could close the gap and reach a final agreement. we were taken a back when bart management backed up and withdrew their offer claiming to be confused the day before. there was no confusion. instead bart's hired gun hawke lied to the unions and shattering the fragile framework of an agreement. >> it is not true that we had a proposal on th

in oakland, heather ishimaru, abc7 news. >> heather, wishful thinking. >>> as the daily strike talk continues bart riders are growing more and more frustrated. they are waiting to see if the trains will be running in the morning. nick talked with a bunch of them and joins us in daly city now. nick? >> i can tell you i met people who live in all different parts of the city. they have to get to various places. they say it is this uncertainty that hangs over their head like a dark cloud. >> it has been frustrating for me because i get off at 7:00 in the morning. i work in the city. do i catch the bart? >> very frustrating because i live across the bay and i have to make arrangement. i have to stay in the city so i can go to work. >> not knowing before you get to bed because god know hows you will get to work the next day. >> as heather mentioned the federal mediator asked both sides not to discuss where they are in the negotiation process with the public. we don't know how close they are in an agreement which means we could be in the same position again tomorrow. in daly city, nick smith, abc7 n

in oakland, heather ishimaru, abc7 news. >> heather, wishful thinking. >>> as the daily strike talk continues bart riders are growing more and more frustrated. they are waiting to see if the trains will be running in the morning. nick talked with a bunch of them and joins us in daly city now. nick? >> i can tell you i met people who live in all different parts of the city. they have to get to various places. they say it is this uncertainty that hangs over their head like a dark cloud. >> it has been frustrating for me because i get off at 7:00 in the morning. i work in the city. do i catch the bart? >> very frustrating because i live across the bay and i have to make arrangement. i have to stay in the city so i can go to work. >> not knowing before you get to bed because god know hows you will get to work the next day. >> as heather mentioned the federal mediator asked both sides not to discuss where they are in the negotiation process with the public. we don't know how close they are in an agreement which means we could be in the same position again tomorrow. in daly city, nick smith, abc7 n

heather ishimaru is live in oakland. hetter, walk us through -- heather, walk us through what happened. >> anyone concerned about a strike the latest developments are disappointing. the kind of thing that makes your heart sink. the unions are accusing bart of pulling the rug out from under neat them and bay area commute -- underneath them and the bay area commuters at the last minute. after back to back 12-hour bargaining days, bart's hired chief negotiator left at 9:45. tom hawk said see you in the morning to reporters and followed by grim-faced union members who said last night they had actually been closing in on a deal. >> today the unions came to the bargaining table with a hope we could close the gap and reach f a final agreement. we were taken a back when bart management backed up and withdrew their offer claiming to be confused the day before. there confusion. instead bart's hired gun hawke lied to the unions and shattering the fragile framework of an agreement. >> it is we had true that we had a proposal on the

but we want to make sure you're safe. >> yeah. >> this is your choice, heather, okay? >> but as is often the case, the young woman declined, choosing instead to take her chances with the man who says he's her protector. >> if these people are victims, then why don't they leave the situation they're in? >> i think we're putting the spotlight on the wrong person when we expect victims to self-identify. it's very hard to leave a situation of human trafficking. sometimes it's because people are literally behind locked doors. but more often it involves psychological coercion. >> okay. thanks. >> it doesn't take handcuffs to keep someone enslaved. >> is he your pimp or is he your boyfriend? >> he's my boyfriend. he's not my pimp. >> but you wrote him letters, you call him daddy. >> yeah. because he's like a father to me, takes care of me. >> at least for tonight it seems that no one has a better understanding of what motivates heather than the man who has made his living in the dark shadows of detroit's underworld, the man they call mico, the man they call machete. >> i thin

heather. >> reporter: julie, we are here as our firefighters, i'm told the fire is out. crews remain here on the scene, as does the train itself. there it is on the elevated tracks. i've learned that this fire started right smack-dab in the middle of the train in the fifth car of the ten-car train. i want to show you what it looked like by those passing by. take a look at this video. you can see all of that smoke billowing from underneath this train. it has not been a good couple of days for bart riders. they were just heading home when suddenly they were told they needed to evacuate. listen to what one passenger told us. >> they told us to get out. and yeah, we smelt the smoke, but seemed to get progressively worse. >> reporter: now, a few minutes ago i spoke with a bart spokeswoman. she tells me that at this time, they have determined that this was some sort of equipment malfunction, an electrical shortage. the fire chief tells me indeed this fire was a bit of a challenge. of course, they had to deal with the third rail and energized car so it took time for firefighter

step in the right direction. >> each and every person across maryland and across the country has a heather in their life. nomatter who that person may approximate, it may be a son or daughter or husband or wife and we want to protect the heather in your life. >> the heards say tragedies like that are preventable. while new legislation, they hope it will be inforced and another law impacting drive drivers is taking effect. ifyou you're not buckled up, it's going to cost you. now, ifyou're driving anyone under 16, you're responsible for the fine of an unbuckled passenger. >>> and another law carrying the name of grace is going to take effect tomorrow. the howardcounty teen took her own life after receiving online threats. grace's law makes it illegal to bully a child online. >>> and synthetic drugs like spice and k 2 will be classified as controlled substances. thelaw that starts tomorrow out laws the sell or possession of the major chemical components of synthetic maryland. theproducts have been sold in some specialty shops and convenience shops. . >>> all right, the nsa could be spying on

heather wagenhals is a columnist, speaker broadcaster and author on matters of finance - you're also a licensed real estate broker yet you say home ownership is a huge economic scam? > >it can be and it's a shame because i grew up here in arizona and we saw the boom of all of the development. and with what happened, we have kind of created this myth about homeownership that everybody was entitled to it and it kind of started in the 90's. after we got the rtc cleaning up our real estate market after our first banking debacle---we saw unprecedented growth. but the growth that we saw at the turn of the century had nothing to do with home ownership or value. it started simply with scarcity in our marketplace and then with the advent of all of these loans, we got people into homeownership who weren't ready and prepared for that investment. > >heather, is this a problem right now or will this always be the case? is this because of the recession we just came through? will it once again be the best asset and the best investment we can make? > >it could be but it depends on what your goals ar

heather and ainsley back to you. thanks elizabeth. >> as we enter day 9 if you are counting of the shut down no signs that it is close to coming to an end. president obama and speaker john boehner faced off in head to head news conferences. doug luzader following the story out of washington for us this morning. good morning, doug. >> good morning. we will see what happens today. if house speaker john boehner and president obama eventually sit down to hammer out some kind of a deal it will be the result of two political realities. first of all republicans know they are taking a hit from the government shut down. on the other hand what the president is you can at thatting about doing is even more politically unpopular raising the nation's debt ceiling well over $18 trillion. here's what he said yesterday. >> my simple point is this. democrats in the senate and house are prepared to talk about anything. um prepared to talk about anything. they can de ion whatever format they want. >> offered to talk only if republicans

>> thank you, heather. some of the largest sports organizations are working together to try to prevent concussions. a new group will work with the national concussion coalition to determine best ways for diagnosing and treating young athletes. doctors say for as much progress made so far there are still a lot of things we need to learn about concussions and how they effect young athletes. a 6 car accident on a major accide highway in maryland sends people to the hospital. drag racing may be the reason. a 21-year-old driver was speeding when he lost control slammed head on into a truck and that caused the domino effect. so far no one has been charged. >>> the human prank strikes again. this time he is scaring people halloween style. (screaming) >> that is awesome. >> okay. the manager of the store teamed up with the prank be ster. look at that. sat down next to the halloween decorations then you can see what happens next. the chair comes alive. scary. >> yes. >> it is now 26 after the top of the hour. import

joining me now is our rapid response panel, katrina vanden hueuvel, tom perriello and heather mcgee. katrina, is cruz crazy enough to really try to do this thing once again? >> michael, america is seeing someone like ted cruz before, an american demagog. but we can't forget he has a 75% positive rating with the ideological zealotzealots. i wish we could talk not about ted cruz, because we're giving him too much coverage, and what we need to do is shout loud and clear that what we have is not a deficit crisis with you a jobs crisis and infrastructure crisis. a mobility crisis and quality crisis, poverty crisis in the country. and the more we cover ted cruz, the more we don't talk about what we need to. >> yeah, it's a great point. and no disagreement there. congressman perriello, how mad is mcconnell at cruz right now, given what katrina just said and what can we do oh to get the conversation back on to more progressive ideas? >> amen to everything katrina just said and certainly cruz is making no friends in the senate. but it's not just there. it's in lots of states. i think he has c

heather foley. [applause] mrs. foley, thank you for giving us this chance to try and express the depth of gratitude that we owe to tom. noblestnce wrote of the is an honest man. tom foley was that and more. a leader grounded in decent seat, -- in decency, honor, principal. he did all of these things that a public servant should do and frankly did many of them better than the rest. ask any of his peers and they will tell you this, especially those who did not share his politics. listen to bob dole. or ask alan simpson tebow said tell you to go to hell and make you feel good about going there. [laughter] asthere is a conservative they come both said to the man, i wish he was a republican. he represented the very best in public service and our political system. one class act tipping his hat to another. and committee chairman, majority whip, majority whip, majority leader, then speaker. ,t was his sense of fairness his port in a storm that will always stand out for me. held thishe institution together at a very difficu

president obama already signed it, but as ktvu's heather holmes tells us now, the only a short term solution. >> reporter: the good news? no historic default. the bad news? it's only for a few months and there are no guarantees republicans and democrats will be able to bridge the rest. tonight's last minute legislative deal brings the government and yosemite national park back to life. >> this is pain inflicted on our nation for no good reason. we can't make the same mistake

heather cross a self-em employed widow in new york city. and rich, an insurance broker and president of excel benefit in chicago. heather, was the president right? >> unfortunately not at all. i got a letter a couple weeks ago from my insurance department saying my plan was going to be cancelled because the whole category of the self-employed group plan is eliminated under the law. i'm free to buy individual insurance on the exchanges. it's a couple hundred dollars more than i'm paying now to have the same company i have now and keep my doctor. there are other plans, but my doctor did you want take them. it's scary when you're self-employed, trying to make your business stay above water. >> rich, your company helps people trying to look for health care options. are you hear ing similar stories? >> yeah. that's exactly right. i work with individuals and businesses. my phone's been ringing off the hook. people are confused. they come to me or other brokers to help them in this confusing times. trying to go it alone doesn't work. the plans are

good morning maria. >> good morning ainsley and heather. we are tracking an area of pressure moving up the east coast. this storm system will be with us for several days. that's really why this is such a concern. we have a number of coastal flood advisories and watches in effect from parts of virginia all of the way up the east coast including parts of maryland, delaware, new jersey even new york city you are looking at coastal flooding concerns. it is a slow mover. we are going to be dealing with this through at least friday. many of us will continue to see rain impacting us through sunday. you will need the umbrella for some time. winds will be annish oo you. gusts in excess of 15 miles per hour and heavy rain with many people picking up 4-6 inches of rain, especially the areas shaded in red. you can see parts of pennsylvania even further inland you can be dealing with flooding. also areas across the mid atlantic. we have another storm system further west. this one can produce severe weather in the form of damaging winds large hail and is

. >> reach out, heather. >> reporter: something heather abbott lost as a bomb blast when she watched the finish of the boston marathon in april ultimately cost her her leg. >> it just feels like reaching another milestone and getting back to the way things used to be. it's kind of a step in the right direction. >> a brand new -- >> reporter: heather received her first running leg at a ceremony last night, her fourth prosthetic so far. and this morning she took her first steps in that new artificial limb. the thought of actually running again no longer seems impossible. >> when i first had to experience using it, i thought, i'm never going to be walking. and i did it. >> reporter: celeste corcoran lost both legs in the bombing. what she didn't lose was her determination. >> if you know the exercising that you need to do is going to get you your independence, then you're going to do it. >> right over left, i love it! >> reporter: the participants often find strength in numbers. >> athletes really gain confidence. they get to see other athletes doing things they thought they might not b

i am heather childers. >> i am ainsley earhardt. a fox news alert. lawmaker vs have been burning t midnight oil and talks of a government shut down. >> doug luzader is live for us with the latest. >> can these guys really hammer out an agreement? the talks are going to continue at the white house. seems as though the ice was thawing, we have a long way to go. house republicans less the white house after a negotiating session with the president say the broader part of an agreement was taking shape. they would raise the debt ceiling the president would agree negotiating budget terms that could lead to reopening the government. it sounded like things were on track. >> if they were to send a clean debt ceiling extension, no partisan strings attached he would sign it. >> but then problems if the president was willing to deal senate majority leader harry reid was not rejecting that stage plan outright. >> republicans were clear they wanted to renegotiate. >> that's not going to happen. >> are are we back to square one? republicans are hopeful something wil

heather holmes, ktvu, channel 2 news. >> heather i know the situation caused major b.a.r.t. delays after it happened, but what about now? is service still impacted in. >> reporter: for a couple of hours tonight, trains were zooming past this station on the one track was that available. about 30 minutes ago, b.a.r.t. resumed service here, and trains are now stopping allowing passengers finally to get off and on. reporting live tonight, heather holmes, back to you. >>> a number of ktvu viewers sent us photos of the train. this picture comes from steven lloyd. you can see the smoke, the black smoke coming from under the b.a.r.t. cars. and jay martinez sent us this photo. again, you can clearly see the billowk smoke right underneath one of the car doors. in 15 minutes, the investigation into last week's deadly accident on that same b.a.r.t. line. the ntsb trying to re-create what happened, as they search for answers. >>> community members in an tay rosa are demanding justice tonight. they learned the gun was an air soft. ktvu's ken wayne talked with a witness who says he saw dep

heather holmes, ktvu, channel 2 news. >> heather i know the situation caused major b.a.r.t. delays after it happened, but what about now? is service still impacted in. >> reporter: for a couple of hours tonight, trains were zooming past this station on the one track was that available. about 30 minutes ago, b.a.r.t. resumed service here, and trains are now stopping allowing passengers finally to get off and on. reporting live tonight, heather holmes, back to you. >>> a number of ktvu viewers sent us photos of the train. this picture comes from steven lloyd. you can see the smoke, the black smoke coming from under the b.a.r.t. cars. and jay martinez sent us this photo. again, you can clearly see the billowk smoke right underneath one of the car doors. in 15 minutes, the investigation into last week's deadly accident on that same b.a.r.t. line. the ntsb trying to re-create what happened, as they search for answers. >>> community members in an tay rosa are demanding justice tonight. they learned the gun was an air soft. ktvu's ken wayne talked with a witness who says he saw dep

heather? >> carolyn, waterfront weddings and waterfront jobs are among the casualties of the government shutdown. a server leaving the cliff house says they were told at 2:30 not to come to work tomorrow. brides and grooms with weddings planned at bay area national park venues had only slightly more notice than that. this view should have been a backdrop for a wedding canceled atcitro heights. yesterday two weddings were canceled at other national park sites, china beach and the muir over look. a wedding planned at the maritime museum had to be relocated with the help of the caterer. >> we had to come up with a plan. >> the founders say the bride was understandably upset. >> she was crying. she went to church. she went to play. she was trying to really for this not to be happening. >> they will go to a place for less space for the kitchen among other things. >> we had to redesign the food to make it work in the closet. that's the size of our kitchen. >> the cliff house kitchen will go dark aft

heather and ainsley. >> absolutely he is. takes a different kind of person to be like that. >> at least 8 people have been killed in nearly 20,000 ordered to evacuate. they were humbled through tokyo. the storm packing hurricane force winds and drenching rains. >> over 500 flights out of two tokyo airports. several lines stopped running due to high winds. this is the strongest storm to approach japan since october 2004. maria molina has more. >> it did impact parts of eastern japan during our overnight hours. talking about wind gusts of 100 miles an hour. the rain was affecting parts of japan as we have a nuclear plant out there damaged the 2011 earthquake and the tsunami that impacted the area. the storm system quickly moving away. we have areas of heavy rain impacting arkansas and louisiana and texas. several inches of rain but there is good news. not only improvement in the drought conditions because of the rain but it will quickly move eastward and we will be drying out behind it and temperatures will be cooler behind the

. >> heather, good morning. it is kind of a creepy feeling when you get all of this information going on and realize it might be -- they might be eavesdropping on it. your personal e-mail and message accounts could be in the data they are collecting now that according to a study. nsa intercepts e-mail books and buddy lists from instant message services. the nsa in a power point presentation shows figures from the special source operations it has 14 -- 444,000 from yahoo, 105,000 from hotmail and 22,000 from other providers. this comes from top secret documents from edward snowden. in defense the actions they said the nsa is focused on discovering and developing intelligence about valid forms like terrorists. we are not interested in information about terrorists. >> people all over the world are realizing these programs don't make us more safe. they hurt our economy. they hurt our economy. they limit those who seek, think and live and be creative to have a relationship>> ehe is a controversial figure in all of th

. >> heather nauert has some news. >> good morning to you. i hope everyone had a great weekend. i have some headlines to bring you now. remember those two escaped prisoners? they are now back behind bars this morning and they may soon get familiar company because the authorities are hunting for the people who helped them hide. charles walker and joseph jenkins nabbed at a hotel in panama city, florida, over the weekend and it couldn't come soon enough for the mom of one of their victims. listen to this. >> my heart dropped knowing my loved ones was lying down in the ground and he's getting out, you know, as if it is just a kick in the face. >> these guys were released when fake court documents claimed their sentences had been revoked. >>> in sydney, australia, it is under a state of emergency at this hour. 56 wildfires are raging across the country. and already hundreds of homes have been destroyed in the region. take a look at this. it is just so bad that this is video we're about to see from inside a day care center. the woman who was filming was trapped by a wall of flames. i

all right, heather, let's go. here we go. name something a groom would be shocked to find when he reaches for his bride's garter. >> a chastity belt. steve: a chastity belt. >> oh! steve: chad, name something a groom would be shocked to find when he reaches for his bride's garter. >> a stack of dollar bills in the garter. steve: stack of dollar bills, making a little change, baby, yeah. stack of money up in here, making some change. >> ohh! steve: wow. two strikes, haley. name something a groom would be shocked to find when he reaches for his bride's garter. >> no underwear. steve: no underwear. yeah, man! ♪ you ain't got no underwear on ♪ let's go. >> yeah! steve: miss diane, we got two strikes again. be careful. boochee family can steal. ok, now, why did you want the family on tv? tell everybody. come on. >> to find heather a nice husband. [cheering] steve: can he have ever been married before? >> sure. steve: he can be married? can he have kids? >> sure. steve: ok, cool. >> but he cannot still be married with kids. [la

heather. >> thank you mark. . well, all he had was a photograph and now the star has a name to go with it and a bay area man is suddenly includtrend at ktvu.com of some of this year's ho discuss tombs of where discuss tombs and costumes of where to go and what to wear. >>> oh this internet video is causing a big sensation simply check out. a baby up and down da is trying to -- the panda is less than 4 months old. >>> now, trending at www.ktvu.com, who is wearing what for halloween, we are told this year that people are going for costumes as celebrities including lady gaga. for more halloween costumes this year click on our www.ktvu.com and click on hot topics. >>> check it out, a 6 teenager in the car during the beetles u.s. tour back in 2004. the person on the far right, well, that's charlie sho thank you for making ktvu your choice for news, we'll see you next time for the news break, have a good night. >> today on "tmz" -- >> furthering my point about marriage. orlando bloom, miranda kerr, they're getting divor

i'll comment on this, heather nauert has the news. >> great to see you. >> we like you. >> thank you. better with friends, right? >> that's right. >> geraldo likes you, too. >> thank you. we have serious news to bring you. there is breaking news that we're following out of the state of ohio this morning. a police car has collided with another car leaving six people dead. one police officer reportedly suffering minor injuries. here is what we're hearing so far, that the officer apparently had his lights and his siren on as he responded to a robbery at a mcdonald's near the state capitol in columbus. according to our local affiliate, a male driver and a female passenger -- actually five female passengers, including a toddler and a teen-ager, were killed in that crash. police believe that no one was wearing a seatbelt. we'll keep following this for you. >>> in the meantime, new develops this morning in the nationwide manhunt for two convicted killers who were freed from prison by mistake. it looks like it was an inside job. the murderers walked out of prison in florida using fake documen

>> good morning ainsley and heather. every morning i bring you the weather conditions across the country. now we are seeing some of the weather information that could potentially be impacted by the government shut down as a number of agency for the environment and weather agencies will be impacted. it will be impacting many of the federal environmental functions. services designated he is shess will continue. nasa mission control will continually be staffed but 18,000 employees will be furloughed. those doing research on climate impact or climate change will not be doing their research. national hurricane center will continue to track storms. we have an yar thu they are watching for possible development over the next several days. rainshowers moving in in the pacific northwest. winds died down but massive storm systems bringing lots of snow and higher rel vatielevati there. the storm died down a little bit so lacking at better weather conditions. >> government shut down hurting tourism. one of the iconic landmarks the st

legal analyst danny is he cevallos as well as heather hansen. nischelle turner is going to stand by, as well. danny, let me start with you. the fact the ecstasy charges goes forward but the rape charge does not, they cite there's not enough evidence. we don't have the any information on this case. what essentially might that mean? >> something is strange with this case and here's why. this involves a witness that the prosecution ultimately felt was not credible. yet they're proceeding on a drug possession charge. in california, possession plus furnish equals felony. they don't have any seize you're because it's been digested and don't have any other evidence other than this person's testimony who they don't believe. i have to believe this is a case that i would take to trial, heather. >> there has to be a smoking gun. there has to be a witness, a videotape. everything's videoed these days. there has to be some sort of audiotape. as danny said, it's a credibility issue. she lost on the credibility be with regard to the sexual assault. >> nischell

you're welcome, heather. how you doin'? >> how you doin'? >> good. >> my name is amy. i've been seeing this guy for about eight months now. he says we're exclusive, but he doesn't want to call me his girlfriend, i'm just a little confused. i want to know if you think tles matter? >> they matter in every single point of life. they matter. there's a difference between wife and girlfriend there's a difference between a hookup versus a girlfriend. there's a difference between being a friend versus acquaintance. title always matters. so, yes, but he said you're exclusive. # so that means he's exclusively sleeping with you? i'm just -- i am being thrown under the bus with laughter all day. that's okay. i know how to standby myself and my opinion. so that means you're exclusively sleeping together. can we talk like adults? that means he's not sleeping with other girls. the idea he hasn't given you a title makes me suspicious. sleeping together is something you do in the privacy of your home. a girlfriend is somebody whose hand you hold. whose hair you move out of your eyes wh

. >> i'm heather holmes we begin with that developing news at the valley manor community care home in castro valley on apricot way. we were told that the facility was shut down with more than 20 elderly and disabled residents still need. katy utehs was at that facility, speaking to one staff member who stayed behind. >> reporter: heather he was clearly exhausted and emotional, one of three staff members who stayed behind to care for all these people. at this hour the sheriff's offices is working to obtain a search warrant because this could become a case of elder abuse. the sheriff's office is working to identify all the people who lived there, account or them and find out where the staff went and who the owners are? >> maraus rolland is the cook at valley manor community care home in castro valley, where more than 20 people, elderly, disabled and mentally ill were abandoned. >> the management and everything, they just bailed out on the people, so me and my co-workers we stayed until we got help. >> reporter: help came 48 hours later, had that time rolland and two other employees stru

we have heather homes he station trying to figure out exactly what happened. on ktvu. >>> and the ntsb reenacted the bart accident that killed two saturday at walnut creek. they were closed if both directions. we'll explain the lengths investigators went to and why. >> news chopper 2, at one if i felt, the accident happened, it passed the spot where two men were struck and the train hit the brakes. today's reenactment is the latest steps into the death of lawrence daniels and chris shepherd. john earl participated in three ntsb investigations even though they were aircraft, he says the methods are the same. >> you have to have recreated as best as man kind can and exact duplication of the conditions in which the incident or accident, whatever phraseology you like to use, occurred. >> he says every last detail is taken into account. >> having people in the same exact seat, possibly the same size of individual. >> they try and recreate it to a tee. >> while the reenactment took place, there were no passengers running. shuttle bussings ran from the lafayette stat

. >> good morning heather and ainsley. there were plenty of hiccups glitches and delays most in the early morning hours. officials pointing to 2.8 million people flooding government web sites. healthcare dot gov the federal marketplace that offers coverage to millions in more than 30 states were frozen or jammed. it left little choice but to ask folks call back today or some even asked to wait for weeks to sign up. >> the web site in many instances crashed. the call centers i have had a couple agents and brokers tell me today if you like dealing with the dmv or irs you will love dealing with obama care. >> the president speaking out yesterday saying the hurdles people are experiencing as with any new products are to be expected. he also said the administration will fix the problems even noting some are already being addressed. >>> like every new law, every new product rollout there will be glitches in the signup process. more than 1 million people before 7 in the morning. >> people who didn't get time to sign up, uninsured

danny, heather, thank you both. see you soon. >>> coming up, dr. conrad murray got plenty of attention when he went into jail. but this morning, it was a private motorcade that drove him away in the dark. the man convicted in the death of michael jackson is now a free man after serving just about half of his sentence. his lawyer is going to join me next on ""legal view."" it. a small majority don't. my client received the maximum term possible. this is a man that had no prior record. he had 20 years of exemplary service as a physician. he was given the maximum term. he served every possible day. they didn't let him out a minute early. >> that was hard to hear because there were a lot of hecklers at that vet late news conference. hecklers upset because conrad murray is now a free man after being released overmight in los angeles. you'll remember that a jury found murray guilty in 2011 of causing michael jackson's death. he served nearly two years of a four-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter. now that he's out, murray would like to get this m

. >> reporter: there's also heather, debbie, and heather. she's not sure she could have done it without them as well. >> that's the first time we got together and we all met. >> reporter: it was two years ago these four women all battling breast cancer found each other. their bond was fast and strong. and its quickly spread. the group they formed, survivor sisters now boasts 80 members on facebook. each woman giving each other the right support at the right time. they have also given themselves a project. this one. deciding they want their special bond to do good for others as well. they are the driving force behind a movement to create a special interest breast cancer license plate. >> we've been working really hard to get to this point. >> reporter: having little money for their effort, it's been an uphill battle through sacramento to get the idea through to the legislature. >> if all it does is it saves one life or it's one woman to get an exam, it's all worth it. >> the idea is to raise money for a cause. really what these women want is

weeks later, while in rehab, heather got a call. it was the red sox asking her to throw out the first pitch at the ballpark's rhode island day, her home state. >> i actually used my crutches to get out there on the mound and i threw the ball out to salty and he caught it. >> reporter: let's back up for a moment. the day after the bombing, the sox were at an away game in cleveland that night. in a show of solidarity for the tragic events back home, the boston red sox decided to hang a lone gray jersey in their dugout. boston strong, with the home team area code, 617. >> i think that boston strong mentality, you know, i like to think that that's kind of what helped us get where we are right now this season, and they've been, you know, showing support to the victims from the boston marathon right from the beginning, and continue to do that. >> reporter: days later came boston slugger david ortiz, aka big papi, and his passionate rally cry once the team was home. that same night, neil diamond showed up unannounced to take part in a long

heather lee captured this video in missoula, montana. heather, are you there? good morning to you. >> good morning to you. bill: whoa. when was that? >> that was sunday afternoon about two weeks ago. bill: what'd you think of that big guy, huh? >> oh, it was definitely exciting and fearful at the same time. bill: now, you live in montana. >> yes, sir. bill: you see elk all the time i'm assuming, yes? >> you know, you see a lot of deer. it's not common to see a whole lot of elk on the road, but, you know, you just expect anything especially this many montana. bill: but he's a big guys, right? >> he definitely was big up close. [laughter] bill: i bet. he was taller than you when you were sitting on the bike. what do you think he wanted, heather? >> i don't know. i think he may have liked the smell of my shampoo or something, i don't think. [laughter] bill: you didn't have any snacks in your pockets, did you? >> no snacks. bill: now, your boyfriend glen was driving the bike, right? >> yeah. he was in town visiting. he'd never been to montana, so i thought i'd take