. good evening everyone, they will consider a bill to legalize same sex marriage and they are reacting to a controversial remark made by the first lady. live in downtown baltimore, that is where they first spoke on gay lesbian issues. >> reporter: his wife was making controversial remarks last week telling his allies of same sex supporters they need to choose their words carefully this as they take up this

contents shows debate on -- contentious debate on tuesday. they are promising to fight back a bill that would make maryland the 7th state in the country allowing same sex marriages. >> it's not going to affect anybody else's marriage. >> reporter: some are energized by first lady katie o'malleyly during a speech she called maryland lawmakers who voted against a same sex bill outrage. there is those among those criticizing the first lady who apologized for her choice of words and her husband addressed the same gay lesbian audience asking them to not allow hurtful words enter the debate. o'malleyly has made same sex

marriage a top priority finding polls in support, but 44 oppose it and 6 5% show a force to fight to the end. >> i believe this bill is not going to succeed. i don't believe it will come to the house floor. those are promising thousands of their supporters of same sex marriage to join them in annapolis at 6:00. a senate committee will exam the bill coming up on tuesday. maryland police were killed when a man slammed right into his car. he was driving east on route 50 early yesterday morning when a car carrying three teenagers hit him head-on. they died in the fiery wreck

and investigators have not determined how the teen's car ended up on the wrong side of that highway. new calls for justice and safety improvements. tonight a group of residents in the perry hall parkville neighborhood want some information and an accident that left their neighbor dead. >> reporter: a prayer for a fallen friend and neighbor at the scene of an accident that left beverly moore dead. >> just look around here and you will know what she was thought of. >> reporter: last sunday he left the courts drive and the driver of a sedan pulled around the other car striking moore and speeding off. >> i don't understand. i don't understand how somebody can hit a human being and leave them. >> there is a lot of damage that is done here and not just to a car. >> reporter: neighbors want baltimore county to make

changes to the road or put a camera to help school children. >> neighbors can see people flying down the road and it is ridiculous how they speed on this road. >> reporter: they also want to send a message to the driver at large. >> whoever this is, they need to really -- i hope they are watching and i hope they get a sense of the pain they caused all of us and i hope they turn themselves in. >> reporter: and the car that hit moore should have some visible signs of damage to the front end. neighbors and friends are offering a $500 reward for any information. police have identified a body pulledfrom a well and that man was in fact murdered. they confirmed the body of lenny harris when they got a tip about a well of an unoccupied home in north virginia. police have not released his

official cause of death. with less than two days until the critical primary, mitt romney and newt gingrich continue to attack each other's credibility and it is getting nasty. following the campaign from w j.z. from tampa. >> reporter: mitt romney played up to latino voters while in hialeah, he called on his son craig to rally the crowd in spanish. mitt romney is targeting the hispanic community to try and extent his -- extend his double digit lead in the polls. while he surges, newt gingrich is upping his attack. he is now calling mitt romney a liberal. >> this party is not going to nominate somebody who is a pro abortion pro tax increase liberal. >> reporter: the former massachusetts governor says

newt gingrich's record is to blame. >> he stood up and supported freddie mac -- >> reporter: homeowners here in florida have not recovered from the housing collapse. just last month there were more than 20,000 foreclosures in the state. carmen has owned her orlando home for 14 years and can't keep up with the payment. >> are you scared you will loose your house? >> yes. >> reporter: carmen says her mortgage has skyrocketed to $993 and the economy is her number one concern. >> i will have enough money to pay for my mortgage next month to pay my light and my water. >> reporter: gop hopefuls have enough to convince florida voters they have enough to turn the economy around. daniel noting ham eyewitness

news. >> rand paul is now actively campaigning in that state. and they are trying to evict occupied protesters from two major encampments. they distributed flyers in freedom plaza warning them they have until noon tomorrow to tear down their tents. police are warning anybody who does not comply will be arrested. they have been camped out for two months now. you may have seen it out your window and if not some areas are actually seeing some snow flurries and we had some here on television just a few moments ago and bernadette is tracking the system on live doppler radar. >> this is not at all a big service. a very quick moving cold front is getting in and out and you may get a quick burst of snow out of it. coming from the northwest, it is moving quickly and it will

move offshore in about another two hours, it is bursting a little bit of snow out of here kicking up those winds and sustained wind gusts as it passes through it will bring in some colder air. 43 in baltimore and it will not be a huge problem on the roadways but it will cool down. we will have that forecast coming up. a generous offer from some baltimore county parents rejected by lawmakers, they had conditioning in school and they explained how one state lawmaker is backing those parents. >> we are tired of saying pretty please, we are now going to dynamite the bureaucracy out of the way. >> reporter: he is at a boiling point over a $7 million request over county school leaders. on wednesday they asked the state to pay for air

conditioning at some schools, this after turning down and offer from parents to buy a few ac window units. >> some third grader said i put my head down on my desk and fall asleep i am so hot. come on baltimore county. >> reporter: now they have launched an online website for parents who want to urge the school board to cool the classroom but in a statement to our news station, they said the district considered the offer but the individual units would cost more in the long run. we look at solutions that will last a long time and it was not advent stage juice for the school -- advent stagous for the school system. >> reporter: he said classrooms will become a safety hazards --

safety hazard for students and teachers. >> every school room should be air-conditioned by april. >> reporter: they confirm all of their schools should have air conditioning but nearly 100 schools do not have full air conditions throughout the building. >> $1 billion is spent on school construction every year. a deadly pileup. at least ten people are dead on a florida interstate. arson investigators are getting involved. new this evening, find out how long it could take to clean up the disaster off the coast of italy. well we didn't expect this, an iron man commit tore got a

little more than what he bargained for. one of the oldest libraries are getting a makeover. one of the positive branches of closing coming up. we have a cold front moving through and it will changeup our warm weather temporarily. we will have a complete forecast coming up on eyewitness news after this break. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

. 43 degrees and a light flurry, very windy right now and most of central maryland will explain all of this in the forecast coming up. a trouble willing development, a search for a missing toddler in maine. she disappeared from her father's home six weeks ago and a search of the home turned up traces of blood and tests confirmed some of the blood was the little girl's. they don't believe her father and two others were home at the time of the girl's disappearance and they are entirely forthcoming about what happened. it will take ten months to take care of the cruise ship. at least ten people died when the costa concordia ran aground. 10 people and 16 passengers

remain unaccounted for. 16 crashes in florida, at least a dozen cars and seven tractor- trailers were involved. there was a nearby brush fire and now they are trying to determine whether somebody set that brush fire on purpose. a homeless man spent three whole days stuck in mud in mexico. the students found him in a field trip during a trip to the rio grant. it turns up the man is wanted for assault with a deadly weapon and police say he will be headed to jail as soon as he is released from the hospital. the canton branch of the library is temporarily closing its doors. tonight tim williams explains why. >> reporter: it is the last of

four original lie prayers from 1886, now at 126 years old, the canton branch is due for and getting a face-lift. >> it will be closed for two years. a lot will happen to this branch. it will go through its own extreme makeover. >> reporter: it will include upgrades that are electronics friendly and more space for neighborhood events like story time. >> there will be more computers, more disabled friendly for the handicapped, there will be a new information desk a new meeting room with gigantic space. >> reporter: pratt administrators have noticed an increase of library patrons during the struggling economy and those visiting the branch will have to wait for two years to use this library.

>> when they walk in they will just love it. patterson park branches will be undergoing renovations during these next two years. and in australia... >> have you guessed why we had to blur out part of the video, the runner was making his way to the finish line when suddenly he passed a group of nudests. they had a hard time keeping it together but exposed spectators didn't seem to phase him. the guy kept on running and that guy right there went on to run the race. >> maybe it was a little encouragement to keep running, right? distraction. >> i have to get out of here. >> just keep on going. >> man, that beach weather looked nice out there compared to what we have out there now.

43 and snow. >> is it possible? >> you really want to get into it? >> basically. the short version of it, when you get this burst and it is coming down pretty hard, it can maintain that cold structure all the way down to the surface because it is coming down with such force. it is so warm down here it is not going to make much. this snowstorm, if you like the snow it will move away quickly. what a beautiful shot that is. and on first warning doppler radar, it is very small with this cold front and it is moving quickly but it is going to be moving before it does move on. and a batch of clouds are making its way through and now here is a cold front coming through with the burst of snow and it will be moving on to the east and there was a very warm wind for us today, not quite as

warm as it was but quite average. there is going to be a cooler wind for us. look at the cooler air starting to come in. we are still 43 degrees in baltimore and dew points are so low and when you are way up in the clouds most of the precipitation is frozen and when you have a dew point like this, it can stay all the way down, the dew point comes up and temperatures come down, hence we have snow out there. we will be closer to 43 degrees tomorrow and however wait until you see this five-day forecast, there is another batch of warm air brewing to the south. our temperatures are going way up for the middle part of this week. so we have tomorrow a little bit cooler and then it gets out of here and a warm front during the day tomorrow. it will have some clouds with it and that gets out of there behind it and comes that warm

air mass and we are back up in the 60s for our highs and that will continue right into wednesday. here is the forecast, winds out of the west will be gusting and they come down to 15 knots small craft advisories. snow showers going down to 28 degrees and occasionally mixing with clouds, not quite as windy coming through, take a look at what the front does, brings in temperatures in the 60s, a chance for a few showers on wednesday. still in the 50s but it will turn colder over the weekend. coming up next in sports, super bowl, it is one week away and we have pre-game details on one of the ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

. man, there are a lot of people around here who could care less about the super bowl. last sunday's ravens loss to new england, they have no desire to check out super bowl 46, they strongly feel the purple birds should be participating in, instead. nevertheless, they chartered buses before taking their super bowl faithfuls and sort of beginning of the neck week's 012 faithful starts. the pre-game hype has begun. >> are you ready for some football next week? if i say anything, will you yell? [crowd noise] [applauds] >> in super bowl 42 back in an

08, giants upset the defeated 17-14 and now patriots are devoted by 3. and same in college hoops... >> well, we will come back to that. skip a page, nevertheless honolulu,hawaii, you saw ray lewis' game, goose filled with gas unbecoming the best of the best brandon marshall had a record, make that for you touchdowns, he had 6 catches at 176 yards and in the highest over the nfc 59 and that's 100 total points. >> today's game will be based on one thing, gentleman, your ability to step up. oh, yes, step up. >> that is michigan assistant

coach corey alexander and they did not step up, they were tough in the paint, jordan morgan rejected byssal enter, ohio state loose it is by 64- 49. lebron james came to work on a bicycle and he rode the chicago bulls to the ground. derek rose 34 in vain as the heat takes care of business, 97- 93, meantime across the atlantic to a wet with sweat court men's final rafael that dale went -- nadal went down in a match that lasted five minutes. it was jokavich winning 6- 7

and 7-5. my goodness. five hours and 53 minutes. >> get the big plate, coming in second. >> not quite. just a big check. much bigger than the check we probably seen. >> take a stand. we will be ,, ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] combine a pnc cashbuilder visa credit card with a pnc performance select checking account and get up to 1.75% cash back for just about every purchase. learn more and apply today at pnc.com/cashbuilder.

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