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>> from the city, to the counties, to your neighborhood, now it is complete coverage. it is wjz, maryland's news station. >> key endorsements. >> donald trump announces who he wants to be the republican presidential nominee. >> hello again, i am jessica kartalija. >> i am don scott. >> here is what people are talking about today, breaking news, just moments ago donald trump announces he will endorse mitt romney, as randall pinkston reports the four remaining republican hopefuls are campaigning in ned da today ahead of that state's caucuses this weekend. >> reporter: donald trump is stealing the spotlight from the candidates hinting he is ready to endorse one of them. >> going to be a significant day. >> thank you, sir. >> sources in both mitt romney and newt gingrich's camp say they will get the endorsement but he wasn't tipping his hand.

>> we will have some fun. >> gingrich could use a spark, after losing big to mitt romney in florida. he needs to slow his rival's momentum. he asked reporters in reno to help him get the nation back on track. >> we are in such a big mess that no one person can fix it. we need to unleash the american people so we fix it together. >> romney has a pair of rallies tonight in nevada, hoping to get back on message after spending most of wednesday defending comments he made about the poor. >> i am not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety nether. if it needs repair i will fix it. >> sometimes things don't come out the way you would like them to. my focus is on middle income americans. >> the latest pole in nevada looks good for the former governor. he has a 20 point lead over gingrich, with rick santorum and ron paul way back. at the white house randall

pinkston, wjz eyewitness news. >> 46 states have yet to hold primaries and caucuses and just six% of delegates have been awarded so far. >> the susan g. koman foundation is receiving flak from women's rights groups this afternoon after it announces it is pulling its funding from planned parenthood, ron matz is live with more on this. good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon, don. the susan g. komen foundation is calling the move a tragic decision, while critics say it is political pay back. the organization had been giving planned parenthood funds to fund breast exams. they say they pulled funding after succumbing to pressure from antiabortion activists, in a statement yesterday they denied that politics played a roll and reiterated its decision was based on its newly adopted criteria for issuing grants. >> planned parenthood says it has already received more than $400,000 from 6000 different donors in the 24 hours since

the news broke. >> police are still searching for the suspect in a robbery outside a popular city restaurant. mary bubala is live with more details. good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon. police are checking surveillance cameras in the area near petite louis and have stepped up patrols. an unfamiliar sight outside of one of baltimore's most popular upscale restaurants, an officer stationed in front. police say two women were robbed as they were leaving the restaurant and we have learned one of the victims is 73-year- old sally michael. she and a friend were getting in their car outside petite louis tuesday night before 8:00 p.m. when a man who claimed to have a gun approached. >> i believe he said if you don't want to get shot give me your purse. >> reporter: he leaned into the car and grabbed one of the purses, one of the them refused to turn over her handbag, a move police say could have been dangerous. >> the suspect appeared to get spooked and ran off. we do not urge people could

confront suspects. do what they asked. >> neither woman was hurt but neighbors are worried a potential gunman is still on the loose. >> this is disturbing, i actually live maybe six blocks down that way on roland and i don't usually think twice about walking up here. >> it is disturbing news to hear. i haven't heard too much about it around here. >> reporter: as of right now police do not have a detailed description of the suspect but they do say they will keep up these extra patrols for now. jessica, back to you. >> according to our media part there the sun the other woman robed that night is a 64-year- old former city school principal. meantime city police are investigating a number of shootings this noon, including one that led to the death of a man in east baltimore. sky eye chopper 13 was over the scene on north monford avenue, a 22-year-old says he was sitting in front of the house when someone opened fire, three more shootings overnight are also under investigation. >> a convicted cat killer will spend the next three months

behind bars, a judge sentencing ethan wideman to 90 days in jail. he was earlier found guilty of shooting one cat with a pellet gun and beating another. he is also suspected of killing 5 more. in addition to jail time he must pay a fine and is not allowed to have contact with animals for three years. a viewing will be held today for 18-year-old zachery rose. he was one of 4 people killed when britney walker drove the wrong way and hit another car head on. toxicology reports show she was driving under the influence as was the driver of the other car. >> this unseasonably pleasant weather may not be around for too much longer as pennsylvania's punxsutawney phil makes his predictions on this ground hog day. >> as i look at the ground on gobbler's knob, many shadows do i see. six more weeks of winter it must be.

>> oh. poor phil, getting the boos. phil's prediction was made in a winter that has brought little snow to the east coast and only a few notable cold days and our mild weather continues today even with a couple of waves of rain early this morning and a drop off from the warmth of the past few days. so let's take a live look outside right now. you can see it remains overcast overhead and we have complete first warning weather coverage would you with marty in the outbook and meteorologist tim williams over in the weather center. you know if this is winter, we will take it, phil. right? >> you know, absolutely, you know marty and i just talked about this. first off you see marty is in his jacket. we always say the first indication of weather is how the weatherman is dressed, marty is in his suit jacket and the weather is not too bad. yesterday we got to 70. despite rain moving through we have cloudy skies, so it is not quite as warm but still dealing with a day that is unseasonably

mild. take a look at the temperatures. we are at 49 right now, 41 oakland, 45 on the shore and 46 in elkton, so how does this play into the rest of the week? for more on that we send it to martin bass. >> good afternoon, everybody. i want to look at national temperatures and still want you to note that cold air is trapped well up to the north and west, no longer way up to the north and west, i mean it is now 30 bismarck, 33 in minneapolis but you still have a 55 in kc, mo, and a flow from milder regions coming into the mid-atlantic but colder air is trying to make it into the lower 48 if you will. our next graphic shows though by tomorrow, yeah, that jet stream is starting to drop down the east coast but we are going to still be in the mild envelope of air and believe men with i tell you it is going to last longer than just tomorrow. meteorologist tim williams has

those details shortly. now back inside. >> a local art museum is teaming up with google for a special contest that the could lead to your child's artwork being seen by millions and them getting thousands. the walters art museum is encouraging students to redesign the google home page banner as part of the contest. it is open to students nationwide with the winner receiving a $30,000 scholarship and, of course their artwork featured on google's home page. >> still to come on wjz eyewitness news at noon, they are mourning in egypt after more than 5 dozen people die in soccer riots there. whom they say is to blame. >> facebook is going public. details later. >> and tim has your forecast. eyewitness news at noon will be right back. >> complete coverage continues with don scott, jessica kartalija, and first warning weather with marty bass and meteorologist tim williams, it is wjz, maryland's news

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funerals are underway in e e egypt today for those killed in a soccer fan after fans rushed on to a field going after anyone associated with a visiting team. many are blaming the ruling

people to allow it to happen to fuel chaos following the fall of hosni mubarak. a ferry capsized. here are some photos. it was traveling from new brit britain island to a coastal city. the expect number of people still missing is not known. the accident remains under investigation. >> a decade of war in afghanistan could come to a close as soon as next year. secretary of defense leon panetta is telling reporters he hopes the u.s. and its allies will be able to make a transition from a combat roll to training and advisory by 2013. they are set to remain there through 2014. faith book hopes to raise 5 billion dollars when it goes public this spring.

documents filed with the sec reveal it doubled its revenue. mark zuckerberg will still control 57% of facebook's stock. >> still ahead your complete first warning weather forecast, it is now just two and a half minutes away. >> and here is a look at today's midday stocks and last night's winning lottery numbers. we will be right back. ,,,,,,,

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fios. a network ahead. now, weather, the complete forecast and the first warning of severe weather. >> you are all ready to make ground hog soup. >> well, yeah, but you know what? as everyone said if we get six more weeks of winter but winter is like that no one is complaining. >> no soup. >> he is not predicting bad weather. he is predicting more weather. >> yeah, and i don't know if you know the temperature yesterday, 70 degrees, we got into the low 70s downtown but 70 degrees officially, so yeah, come on phil, bring it, bringit. we will take it. 49 degrees now, still above our average high normal for this date, 42, 37 is the dew point, rain moved through that brought us the cloud cover that we have

right now but also locked in the temperatures, temperatures have not fluctuated from early this morning so we will see a bit of a break in the clouds, sun will come out and we will have a bit of warmer air moving in and the sun will help warm us up a little bit. this east wind at 5 miles per hour is not going to help us stay warm but the sun william do its job, 30.04 is your barometer reading, 41 in oakland, 51 cumberland, 47 elkton, 45 in ocean city. 53 in dc, and around the immediate metro area, everyone mid to upper 40s and just around 53 degrees toward dc as we mentioned, 49 columbia 48 annapolis and 48 on kent island. the winds from the east northeast as we mentioned. a northerly component in l k ton and dc and haggerstown as well as this will stay with us as high pressure builds in to the region. the rain that moved through, most of it moved through past

to our south and the clouds are still left with. there are breaks to the west, in the bigger picture, the drier air is moving in our direction because high pressure is moving on it. as that happens we will see more and more air from the north and northwest, around that high we will see that flow but we dry out, so tomorrow and the weekend things clear out. our next chance of rain comes on sunday and will stay with us through monday. it may get damp then but even that system does not look to have a lot of moisture with it. your next high tide is at 2:38. northwest winds on the bay 5 to 10 knots, no advisories, today up to 56 degrees, cooler, clouds give way to sun. we are execing a spike p the temperatures this afternoon. 32 degrees tonight. clear and colder. then 50 degrees tomorrow. mostly sunny. look for a pretty nice start to the weekend. >> tim, thank you. >> you are welcome. >> and still to come on wjz's eyewitness news at noon, can vitamin d affect your risk of having a stroke? what a new study is saying is

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watch, vitamin d may help prevent strokes. a new study finds people who have higher levels of vitamin d in their diet cut their risk of a stroke by 11%. researchers also say people in live in areas with less than average sunlight had a 60% higher risk of stroke. how fast you eat may depend on your dining partners. scientists say people tend to mimic the eating pace of the people with them, with the behavior most prom incident prominent at the beginning of a meal. a study says massage can help damaged muscles heal faster. other studies have shown massage can reduce chronic pain and improve your range of motion. >> pe sure to check in with wjz eyewitness news today at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. more on the controversial move susan g. koman is making with planned parenthood and the latest on the tragic stamp

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only at the sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at just $699. well, taking a look outside, it is another pretty decent day temperature-wise, a little cloudy right now, punxsutawney phil, yeah, i don't know marty, what is your thought? >> you know what? it is like don said, he is predicting winter, not the weather.

>> true. >> hey, scott. >> true. >> that was good, that was real nice of you to say. >> my calendar predicts as well. >> he was all set to make a new jean jacket with punxsutawney phil lining in it. >> let's take a look at the 5 day. think about what they have done in gobbler's knob, they have turned this thing into a money making idea for them. 52 daytime highs now through tuesday, tuesday by the way is the 8th day of the month. you can take a week out of winter's february calendar as mr. williams and i were discussing earlier. back inside. >> thank you very much. >> don't miss the primetime line up. at 10:00 a episode of the mentallest and afterwards the news. >> is your cat bored? there are apps that can keep

them challenged for hours. if the mice go for too long they get to take nibbles out of it and they shuffle through a number of games so your feline will remain focused and entertained for hours. no ipads were harmed during the taping of this story. >> that is funny. thanks for watching. i am jessica kartalija. >> d,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,