four americans have been killed and taliban is claiming responsibility. lea didn't comment on the details of her father's death but said he did recently pass away. the family is comforting each other here in baltimore and remembering happier times with her dad. >> he didn't care what -- what anyone thought. we were on the boardwalk, he put these goofy teeth in his mouth. >> she said her dad taught physical education at thelement -- elementary school and taught special education. she hopes her dad's legacy lives on. >> he was a strong, courageous, brave, loving man of god. he just loved the lord. and he loved my mom and he loved us and he would have done anything for us. >> major marchanti leaves behind four adult children and his wife of 24 years.

>> we are tracking some breaking news out of afghanistan. officials are reporting a very strong explosion at an airport in the eastern part of the country. we just heard it was a car bomb. the spokesperson says at least nine people have died, six of them were civilians. meantime, at least 45 people died today alone in syria, according to the latest estimate, 75,000 people have died since the uprising began against the syrian president. during the violence today there was a vote on a new constitution. experts say it was largely ceremonial because it will pass. the new constitution will let the president stay in power until 2028. new at 11:00, we're hearing from the families of two firefighters injured while battling a house fire in riverdale. the parents of kevin o'toole and ethan southerly talked with -- ethan southerly talked with us today. we're told the firefighters are

in critical but stable condition. kenn o'toole suffered burns over 40% of his body. despite the injuries, kevin's father said kevin is always looking out for his friends and family. >> one of the first things he was worried about was how was ethan? they were together. i think maybe the second one, my family. >> ethan is waiting for tests to tell him how badly burned his airway is. he is alert and communicates through writing. right now, police investigating a shooting in townsend. apearntly it happened around 8:30 this morning. police say a man found a burglar inside the home. at some point the suspect shot the homeowner and took off. the victim is expected to make a full recovery. right now, there's no word on the motive. st. joseph's medical center could be soon run by non-catholics but the cardinal doesn't want it to happen.

both prospective buyers are not catholic, and while the buyers have agreed to honor the catholic history of the hospital, the hospital has to be sold because of losses due to a lawsuit. rick santorum is getting secret service protection. a top obama campaign advisor says santorum has a legitimate chance of becoming the republican nominee. >> republican presidential candidates campaigned in michigan, georgia, and at the daytona 500 on the last weekend before tuesday's primary. republican senators john mccain and lindsay graham are predicting a mitt romney sweep of arizona and michigan. mccain is an active romney supporter. >> i'm confident mitt will do

well on tuesday night in arizona and michigan and hopefully that will move this process forward so we can concentrate on the real adversary. >> he's going to win both states. governor romney is a better candidate today because of the primary process. >> conservative arizona governor january brewer -- jan brewer supports romney. >> it's important when you choose a candidate it's someone you believe in and someone with the background that romney has. >> but robert gibbs, senior advisor to president obama's re-election campaign says don't count out rick santorum yet. >> i think he has a legitimate chance to be the republican nominee. >> recent polls shows the two men running neck and neck in the states where voters will make their choice on tuesday. >> a hot topic on the campaign trail, rising gas prices.

they've been rising for 19 straight days and have never been this high in february before. analysts say the prices in our area could top $4.25 before the end of april, before the peak driving season even begins. right now, expect to pay $3.67 statewide or $3.64 in the baltimore area. this new video we got into the newsroom tonight a train derailed in burlingtonton, canada, killing at least three people, according to the town's mayor. crews have been busy working to pull passengers from the wreckage. a spokeswoman for via rail said 75 people were onboard the train from niagara falls to toronto when it went off the rails. police have not released details about the accident. the academy awards wrapped up just a few minutes ago. how did your favorite stars do >> it's called the show before the often and this year stars on the red carpet didn't

disappoint. sasha barren cohen made a sprash as he arrived as his character from the dictator and spilled what he said were the ashes of north korean dictator kim jong il. up next, the two best actor nominees, exchange en-- exchanging an impromptu hug. he stars in "the artist," the black and white silent film is favored to win best picture, best director, and best actor. >> this is an artist's vision and i believe in it. >> i need to see you square on. >> the first major award went to ocktavea spencer of "the help" for best supporter actress and best supporting actor came -- was chris plummer who played a -- an 86-year-old

married man who comes out as a gay man. >> you can expect a full wrapup of the oscars on 11 news today starting at 5:00 a.m. it was a winter for the record books, just not in the way we're used to. new data about how cold it wasn't this year. >> we live paycheck to paycheck. it's important that the money is there for us. >> a warning tonight as a lot of people are filing their taxes, scammers everywhere will show you -- we'll show you what they're doing to keep that refund check from getting to you. >> a cold night is expected tonight, much like last night, then we warm up briefly. the forecast is just ahead. getting chilly out with clear skies at the airport, 46, winds calm.

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>> it's only february, late february, but it's never too early for a lot of people to think about filing their tax returns. this year, we can add one more reason to get it done early. tech savvy thieves going after your money. we have a re-- a warning in tonight's project economy report. >> bart cohen a retired miami

police officer, only recently got his tax refund, not from this year, from last year. expecting a $4,000 refund, he was stunned to discover that someone else beat him to it. >> it's just a huge nightmare that you just can't believe it's happening. >> it took months to straighten it out with the i.r.s., all that time without his refund. >> i'm retired and disabled. we live pake-to-paycheck. -- paycheck-to-paycheck, it's important the money is there for us. >> the crime of stealing someone's identity to get a tax refund from the i.r.s. has exploded from more than 49 cases two years to more than 260,000 last year. the i.r.s. said it stopped claims for $1.4 billion in repounds. they say entire rooms of people are using tax filing software armed with stolen social security numbers. with their piles of cash they buy expensive cars, jewelry and

clothes. the government says it's putting in more trip wires such as name and address mismatch bus the deputy inch r.s. commissioner said it's hard to separate honest and dishonest filings. >> taxpayers have -- move every year, millions of taxpayers have children, millions of taxpayers change jobs. so we have to go through a long process. >> they hope to check against w-2 pay forms more quickly, something it doesn't do now until after refund checks go out. how to protect yourself? protect your social security number above all. >> don't use it as a password, never answer it on a website, no matter how many times the website asks you. protect that social security number like it's money because it is. >> and the most important tip, file early. 10 you get your refound before someone else does.

pete williams, nbc news, washington. >> now your 11 insta-weather plus forecast. >> despite a few cold snaps here and there, this winter is going down as the fourth warmest in 117 years. 80% of the country has had an above normal season. for proof of the warm rt look at the piles of unused salt and plows in bolt. by this time last year, boston had dug out of 43 inches of snow. this year, just seven. with the unused money, they're going around town filling potholes. >> so far, we've filled about 2,500 potholes, used about 200 tons of asphalt. >> one blessing from the warm weather, it's helping with unemployment because less snow means less delay on construction projects. we're told the industry added nearly 1,000 jobs last month oy loan. meantime, john collins is

standing by with the latest weather here in baltimore. >> those warmer temperatures, and we've had a lot of it this year, also means a lot less snow. a lot less snow. you know, an inch or so here in the area, depending on where you live. the mountains, not enough to be great skiing. they've been able to make some but that's about it. natural snow is hard-put to get. there's a weather system in the great lakes and another one in florida. the florida one interrupted the daytona 500 race. both of these will be passing to the east. the one in florida may get some rain up close into the carolinas. but that will move off the east and miss us. the snowmaker in the great lakes looks like it'll miss us. on the west coast, a storm is developing, it's shifting into northern california, that storm looks like it comes in the middle of the week for us, that will be a rainmaker, not a snowmaker. 49 today the high, 48 is typical so a normal day temperature wise. even the lows were close.

a little above freezing, 33 and 37, typical low is 29 degrees. we're going to do the seesaw act here for a while. in the past week, we've been up, we've been down, back up again tomorrow, then we go down again, then we stabilize. the whole winter has been like that. we go into march, march starts on thursday. we go into march with rising temperatures. this evening, 41 degrees at indianapolis, 32 at cambridge. parkton, 33. westminster 37. down into the 20's in frederick. 27 degrees. 30's and 20's in far western maryland as well. no clouds around us at all. you have to go way to the north that disturbance is going to move through the great lakes and next as the snowmaker is well off to our north. a big area of high pressure sitting overhead. one more night of chilly conditions. with this weather system to the west, a front to the west, mild air coming in ahead of us. that's a warm kay tomorrow, relatively warm day tomorrow. the front looks like it's dry.

moisture cut off. so the front goes through dry on tuesday, we're in slightly cooler air, it's the west coast storm that we'll be watching. there is, here's warmer air ahead of the cold front, in the mississippi valley now, shifts east for tomorrow. that's our mild day. here's the forecast then. overnight tonight will be chilly, 26 to 33 with clear skies, winds calm. then watch the temperatures rise tomorrow. here's that warm air coming in. right around 60 degrees or so in our area, warmer to the south. and then things begin to change again. we'll say 58 to 62 for the high, mostly sunny skies, southwest winds at seven to 12 miles per hour. boaters in the bay can expect small craft advisories out. the winds will warm us up but produce a two-foot chop in the open waters of the bay. insta-weather futurecast, here's the storm passing us to the north, moisture to the south, misses us as well. slightly cooler behind that one system but here's that next big

storm that'll come in about the middle of the week or system of the seven-day forecast, 60 today, or tomorrow, rather. 51 on tuesday, only 45 when the rain comes in on wednesday. a similar day to last friday. then maybe a sprinkle on thursday, warm up on friday, with a thunderstorm chance by saturday. >> it wasn't quite the dream wedding one couple from new mexico was looking for but they tied the knot anyway because just before the groom was arrested by police. it happened at a gas station where police tracked the groom down to arrest him for probation violence when officers realized he was on the way to get married, they cut him a break and called a justice of peace to the gasation. in handcuffs, he married his bride. >> to marry them on pump three, which i thought was really funny and at the time i thought, i guess you're part of the wedding party, you're all the groomsmen. >> married on pump three. court records shows rogers has

a long list of offenses, mostly drug offenses. >> who says romance is dead. and we talk about the orioles. down at spring training, checking them out there. are the pitchers coming back from injury? one of them trying to do just

>> sunday morning traditions we enjoy, the baltimore catholic league basketball tourney, such a bevy of talent on display. carmelo anthony, ruity gay and others dazzled over the years. today another one. st. josephs and john carroll, first quarter, ball in the hands of cameron williams. young fellow go. had himself an m.v.p. kind of

day. second quarter, rodney eliot. great spin move. an the finish. john carroll seems to be in control. cam williams knocking down that triple. williams, nice bounce pass, great finish for la von long he gets it done. 11-11 in the line. williams, your m.v.p. mount st. joe's takes the title, 52-39. >> we've been waiting for this all season to come home with a win. >> we were looking forward, practiced hard every day, making sure we won the championship. >> the regular season wrapped up today for loyola university. the greyhounds put a bow on the best regular season in school history. a come-from-behind win. when jimmy took over eight seasons ago, greyhounds had won just a single game. now 13 wins in conference, 21-7 overall, trying to reach the

ncaa tournament for the second time in school history. the sixth-ranked women ended the season in style, finishing with a win. thomas scored 22 of her 25 points in the second half and 17 rebounds. maryland fin -- has the third seed for the tournament next week. the all-star game looked like the pro bowl in that defense was optional. but it was competitive, indeed, one out of four quarters ain't bad. lebron james will do some nasty things to the rim. lefty windmill he had 36 points for the east. second quarter, chris paul to russell westbrook. they are having fun there indeed. third quarter, kevin durant. there was some defense.

carmelo had a hand in ms. face, didn't matter. there is defense going on but you can't stop black griffin. the follow slam. kevin durant your m.v.p. we a -- west a winner, 15 2-179. watta was shut down with sore elbows, he said it happens every february but it goes away. but there's some concern. jake arrieta shows no problems coming back from surgery to remove bone chipsful he has the makings of a top of the rotation starter a possibility that remains on track. >> about two and a half months after surgery, i was able to start my normal throwing progression, late december, like i would have without any type of setback or surgery and spring has been going well, 100%, throwing a couple of good quality pens and trying to get ready for opening day.

>> april 6 is opening day. we still wait with baited breath for rich eisner to run the 40 at the combine. we had to settle for robert griffin iii, he did it in 4.41 seconds. ravebs said wide receiver is a need, a player from notre dame helped his cause. kendall wright is expected to be around late in the first, he empressed with a time of 4.45. he caught 00 passes last season and 14 touchdowns. penn constituent on the road at notre dame. stumped the iresh in overtime. and u.s.c. on the road at rutgers.

zach, what a day. six matches in five days in a format far more personal than their weekly battles to beat the course, match play championship. two of the game's rising stars, rory mcilroy and hunter mahan won morning matches to get to the final. mahan without a win on his resume but you have to think he'll change that before too long. beautiful approach to 10. darn near goes in. sets up birdie, goes to four. mcilroy with a chance to go to one. no putter required. perfect for the reigning u.s. open champ. he would get to within two. mahan needs two-putts on 17. go ahead and give him the the second one. 2-1 over mcilroy for the world title. we'll have a check of the forecast with john coming up

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the whitney houston coffin photo investigation. >> whitney's mom demanding lie detector tests to find out who took the casket photo. then, whit anyway's chauffeur, what he says he saw. >> whitney with a crack pipe. it's one of those things you don't forget. plus, whit anyway's co-star jordin sparks' tearful tribute to whitney. >> i wand to do something that would honor her. >> then, dance mom uproar over

her latest episode. >> stupid is as stupid does. >> now she is being denounce he'd as -- denounced as abusive. then, the littlest shooter. the nine-year-old who accidentally shot this little girl in class. >> i'm sorry, i apologize to everybody. now, "inside edition weekend" in hd. >> lie detectors for friends and fan staffers. >> why whitney houston's family is determined to find out who sold a photo of her in her casket. hello, i'm diane mcinerney. >> i'm paul boyd. this is "inside edition weekend" with the latest on the outrage over the photo of a dead whitney houston. >> whitney's mother is said to be so outraged she is going to extraordinary lengths to find out who is responsible. >> there's growing concern about security at the singer's grave. >> whitney houston's mom is so angry over those pictures of whitney in her casket that she wants to use a lie detector to