tonight, city health officials are asking parents to monitor children for some * of a scarlet fever. this after multiple cases were confirmed. >> scarlet fever is caused by the same bacteria that causes strep throat and it is highly contagious. they sent this letter from two- parent at george washington elementary school. according to city health officials, three students from the same class have confirmed cases of scarlet fever. it is a common infection that spread from person to person by sneezing or coughing. school officials say they are taking steps to prevent it from going from student to student. representatives will be at the school tomorrow morning to answer any questions or concerns parents may have. there are asking them to monitor children for the

symptoms of scarlet fever which include a sandpaper brash, high fever, sore throat, and nec plans. if your child has any of the above conditions contact your doctor scene. it can be treated with antibiotics but if not it can lead to kidney disease in extreme cases. children should stay home during treatment. city health officials will be at the school tomorrow to meet with parents about the confirmed cases. >> we have a school closing for you tonight. grace elementary school will be closed to students because of a strong odor caused by work on pipes earlier this week. in hartford county,grace elementary close to students. will the hamilton post office close its doors for good?

it is on a list of post office is being considered for closing. kai reed is life after area residents had their say tonight. >> we spent about half of an hour at this hamilton post office tonight. there was a constant stream of customers. many of them packed a church that pled with post office officials to keep this post office look at -- (>> we caught up with valerie on her third trip to the post office this week. >> i am sending packages to my family out of town. >> i live down the street here in this neighborhood. >> we do use it. it is the only place i come to mail my stuff. i cannot make it any way to part will when the buses are not running right. >> a lot of his neighbors agreed. this community meeting where

postal officials explain why hamilton is on the closure list. >> having to take a bus to get there, you may get there and it is closed. >> the hamilton post office is one of eight locations listed for closure and a baltimore city. it closed next -- the next closest one is about a mile and a half away. >> we have to be more lean and efficient. we have to save costs at many companies do. we are taking that into consideration. >> after the meeting, 60 more days are allow for further comment followed by another 40 days for review. postal officials make their decision. >> what close the post office? that is not the problem. they are making money. >> her waverly branch is also on the proposed closure list. >> i think it is a terrible setback for the city of baltimore and citizens of

baltimore, especially the poor and the elderly that have the least ability to go long distances for the kind of services they need and who use the post office is the most. >> regardless of what decisions they make about the facility, congress has decided to halt a more post office closings until may. reporting live in northeast baltimore northeastkai reed. >> police are looking for a suspect of a shooting and said it northeast baltimore carry out. it happened on liberty heights avenue just before 11:00 last night. the victims suffered gunshot wounds to the chest. the victim is in critical but stable condition. tonight the man police were trying to arrest in this video is finally under arrest. as you just saw, and another man suddenly attacked one of the police officers.

the attack allowed at the initial suspect to get a way. authorities were trying to arrest brooks for disorderly conduct by he is now charged with the scant, assault, and resisting arrest. more reaction after jack young birches maryland mayor stephanie rawlings blake to cut ties with the grand prix. lowell mesler has more. >> starting in august of 2011, our city will be home to one of the most exciting sporting event in the world -- a baltimore grand pre cure >> it was supposed to be one of the greatest things to happen to the city. now more than four months after the inaugural risk of breast and $47 million for the city, short of 70 -- the inaugural race that

to brought $47 million for the city, jack young admits he supported the rest back in 2010. it is time to the race to go. >> i said i supported the race because i believed what the race was going to do. i did not have a crystal ball to see that it would not financially work for the city or the state or the people who had contracts -- contracts with the race. >> president young said the city's money would be best spent on rec centers, paved streets, and open pools in the summer. >> i did not realize that would be left behind. i do not think right now we should be focusing on a grand prix race at this time. >> when in the story originally sent toyan o'daughtery this photo of him sitting in a aying --ar sitting -

>> ronald does not know his front from his back. if he had to get a job out in the private industry, he would have trouble getting a job. >> young was outraged by what he called an attack from ronald. >> i questioned his ethics. there it is. >> at a public appearance thursday morning, there did not seem to be too much tension between the two. she says she respects his opinion. >> we have disagreed before. it will not be the last time. >> young said he would be open to changing his mind as long as

the city and vendors were paid cash up front. when you do the math, in the and the mayor will have the final say as she has the majority vote on the board of estimates. >> an hour session 2012 report, governor martin o'malley is rolling out a jobs program that makes new housing affordable for low-income families. he wants to double the amount of funding. with the initiative and offers a two cold approach. it will help close the gap on affordable housing while putting 1100 people back to work. >> a lot of people make loving, stable, committed homes and rental properties and care about their neighborhoods and would not be able to raise their children with dignity and a roof over their head if not for quality affordable rental property. >> the initiative is expected to

have millions in private sector dollars and generate money from taxes over the next 15 years. >> visitors in town for this weekend's playoff game for the texans received a big purple welcome. hotels are around a downtown are rolling out the purple carpet as guests from texas arrived for sunday's game. we caught up with two visitors to say most of them they have come into contact with have lived up to the charred the city reputation. >> they are trying to read at me without throwing me to the curve. without getting into too many bad words, they were pretty nice. >> we are told hotels expect even more texans to come downtown as the game approaches. baltimore ravens fans all over are showing their purple pride.

this picture was taken along with their cousin. this is how the folks at liquor pump and charcoal grill are getting ready for the game. let us know how you are showing your baltimore ravens pride. the to our web site wbaltv.com and click on ulocal. those going to sunday's game will have to bundle up. temperatures expected to fall below freezing in the next couple of days. the city shelters will extend its hours and city workers will conduct our record the most vulnerable residents. for a complete list of shelters, you can visit wbaltv.com and be sure to click on weather. coming up -- a day after a man considered to be a prime suspect in the disappearance, he committed to killing another woman. the will have details from the

net -- natalie holloway case. in major fallout tonight after disturbing video of marines in afghanistan surface. reaction from top obama officials. >> the baltimore ravens and ticketmaster respond to the questions and concerns from ribbons fans about the quick sellout of the tickets. >> rain and strong gusty winds. the insta-weather details straight ahead. it is 50 degrees downtown.

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of this year's martin luther king parade it will continue south to baltimore street. hall of famer lenny moore will serve as this year's grand marshal. the festivities for the 12th annual parade will kick off at noon on monday. tickets to the baltimore ravens playoff game on monday sold out almost instantly. many fans were trying to get their hands on some complained they were muscled out by scalpers. it was at a level playing field? jayne miller has some answers. >> they thought they had some decent chances of getting tickets last week. he went to eight ticketmaster outlet in person. >> i was first in line and talking to the court to make sure as soon as the clock ticked over to 10:00 she would place

the order. she did. she said it popped up on the screen for four tickets. it was less than $400. i said to run it through. she went to click ok and it just went away. >> just like that the court told and the tickets had sold out. his friends had no luck either on line. how could the tickets be gone so fast? >> my perception was the tickets went on sale and a few people from the general public got seats. the rest all went to the ticket brokers to charge three times as much for the face value of the tickets. >> i understand where people are coming from. >> anytime you have expectation or a want and you do not get it, you start wondering if there is a conspiracy out there. >> the baltimore ravens and see the names of ticket buyers and they did not notice anything fishy about the sales last week. there are software systems that might help a broker's speed the line, but the only story and

play his demand for exceeding supply. >> when you have so many people trying to buy, i think it is hard for a software genius to figure out how to get access to it. >> dick morgan and his friends to get tickets from the resale site stub hub at a three times face value. fans are being warned to use to get sites that are familiar with. this man turned and tickets that were counterfeit. >> there are fans who were able to buy tickets from ticketmaster as soon as it were available. high demand is what caused a quick sellout. ticketmaster, she said, it gives nobody preferential treatment. >> at a very somber note, family

and friends gathered to bid farewell to a baltimore soldier who died in afghanistan. police escorted his body from dover air force base to arlingto. he will be laid to rest tomorrow at arlington national cemetery. the investigation continues into a disturbing youtube video of what appears to be four marines and urinating on dead taliban fighters. before members of the third battalion second marines returned to north carolina last. leon panetta called the video deplorable and promised president cars that if full investigation. --karzai a full investigation. >> it is absolutely inconsistent

with american values and the standard of behavior that we expect from our military personnel. >> the white house says u.s. forces and diplomats are stepping up efforts to cut a peace deal with more moderate taliban leaders. they say it proves americans are wild and inhumane. in alabama judge signed an order ruling natalie holloway legally dead. it comes one day after the prime suspect in the case confessed to killing a woman in peru. natalie hallways father signed the petition in june hoping to bring closure to the family. her body has never been found. >> and now, your insta-weather plus forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> we have some big changes on the way. it has been mild today but that is about to change as a cold front comes through overnight.

some lightning strikes have been out in western maryland with heavier downpours. all of that is slowly moving in our direction. for the time being, it has been a mild day in january. it has been close to 60 degrees in most areas. the normal is only 41 degrees. we were close to 20 degrees above normal in most areas. that strong front will bring a sharp change and we will see temperatures running below normal as we head into the weekend. we are in the last hours or so of the mild weather across the baltimore area from anne arundel county. hints of change though starting to get close to freezing in oakland and garrett counties. that is where the cold air will come from. it will progress toward

baltimore as we head into morning. the showers will be accompanied by strong winds all across the region. strong winds and showers will put on heavy snow in parts of allegheny county. around here we will see rainshowers in the next couple of hours. as it turns colder the northern suburbs will see a burst of snow that will quickly move out during the morning and sunshine in the afternoon. accumulations of around here -- because it will be such a quick hitting little burst of snow, the higher terrain of northern frederick county have testing. -- dusting. the main emphasis of snow will be out west. here maybe six inches of snow by the time it went down sunday afternoon. a much lighter amount as to get east of the allegheny county into our area. temperatures in the 30's to

around 40 and that is where we will stay in the day. the winds gusting to 45 will push wind chills into the teens and below 20's. high temperatures in garrett county tomorrow. saturday be sincere with snow showers continuing right into the weekend. bundle up if you are heading west. partly cloudy across the eastern shore for friday and saturday. on the lower eastern shore, we will get strong winds as well and much cooler air reaching the beach tomorrow and is sticking around for the upcoming weekend. it has been snowing in chicago and through the great lakes. as far south as northern alabama and the cold will be settling in our region. this arctic air mass will be over the mid-atlantic and it will be very cold. the seven-day, when the and cold in the afternoon. highs around 37 on saturday.

35 with the wind chill on sunday. martin luther king day on monday with nice looking skies but a chilly 40. >> with me is maryland lottery drawing official. two nights a jackpot has an estimated annuity of $625,000. 14, 2, 36, 30, 8, 41. if nobody matches all six numbers on any one line of the

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>> >> the baltimore ravens had the third ring to running game in the nfl. the houston texans finished with the second-best running game. do not underestimate the impact of the passing game. the return. boldin gives the team and the go to a receiver that they lacked over the last two weeks of the season. he looks like he had fresh legs and showed no lingering effects of a knee surgery. the high confidence the defense of leaders of this unit. >> if you look around there are so many special people and so many special places. what is really unusual for us

is we have a lot of special guys on offense. usually we have jamal louis and air mcnaire. now you have ray rice, michael orrs, boldin. the offensive side kind of matches the defense side. we definitely have the potential to be something special. >> we invite you to join us for a saturday night preview of the texans/ravens game right here on tv 11. wade phillips has backed out of his interview with the tampa bay buccaneers. tonight wade phillips withdrew his name from consideration. he has done an amazing job with is one year as defensive

coordinator for the houston texans. he has three previous shots as the head coach and denver, buffalo, and dallas. morris will join mike shanahan's in washington. when bud seling announced he would retire when his contract retired, his wife openly shook his head in disbelief. she obviously knows the man. he has decided to stick around longer. baseball owners voted to give him a two year contract extension that will keep him in charge until 2014. he says he wants to do what is best for baseball. he did not mention he reportedly makes over $20 million a year. if he does retire then, he will do so at the age of 80 after 22

years on the job. this year the singer who won the first american idol will try to sing the national anthem. kelly clarkson will sink at this year's super bowl. they will ask her to stick closely to the script. last year christine aggie lira caught grief went sheepman gold the clerics what she gold"what so proudly we watched at the twilight last gleaming." stick around, tom tasselmyer has the 7 day forecast up next.

>> temperatures about to go down. >> big time. it is 50 degrees or not but i morning temperatures will be dropping fast into the 30's. check in early in the morning, john collins will be here to say if there is any slippery weather in the region. wins tomorrow make just over 45 miles per hour. by the time kickoff comes around a sunday, temperatures in the '30's and wind chills. >> that is our days. thank you for join

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