coming up in a moment. here kim with traffic. >> reporter: justin, traffic starting to get a little bit slow. southbound 95 past white marsh boulevard heading toward the beltway, and towards 895 split. no major problems at the tunnels, bridges looking good. look live at beltway, at providence road, outer loop, a little thicker than the inner loop, but nothing major. we are accident free. checking the maps, we have reports of one accident that is in glen burnie ating for green highway and -- at north green highway. it's the kind of story you hate to hear and the kind of story we hate to tell. we are talking about when something happens to the brave people who go into the burning buildings when everybody else is running out. this morning, we have to tell you that kind of story. mark falkenhan a father and husband and volunteer firefighter never made it out of an apartment. this is the area. it broke out around 6:30 last night off deanwood near loch raven south of the hillendale

shopping center. that's where we find sherrieionson live. sherrie. >> reporter: good morning. it's the saturday scene out here in hillendale after a volunteer baltimore county firefighter was killed right here at this apartment complex. you can see the burned out windows, the tape that encircles the building. there's a police officer sitting outside the building. this fire is still under investigation at this hour. bright lights, fire trucks and paramedics filled the area as crews worked to fight the fire. the call came out a little after 6 p.m. yesterday here at towson crossing apartment complex. 33-year-old -- 43-year-old mark falkenhan was killed while fighting the fire e was found on a third floor balcony and died at st. joseph's medical senter. >> 647 what is known as may day which is a distress call, was signaled. the incident commander picked

up on that. that's a automatic reenforcement with an additional alarm. crews go into the rescue mode. the fire fight he was quickly locate and once located he was extricateed from the building and treated by ems units on the scene. >> they had another fireman trapped inside and he came out and had to strip his clothes a and we wrapped him up because he got hurt on the inside there. >> reporter: now two other residents who live in the building were critically injured in that fire. they were both taken to local hospitals. mark falkenhan leaves behind awife and two children. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >> stay with abc2 news for the latest on the story. we will have the information on the air and on the website, abc2news.com, when it becomes available to us. 6:32. let's look at news around nation. an important milestone in the recovery of representative gabby giffords. she is able to stand up.

a hospital spokeswoman was able to tell us that she can stand on her feet with assistance from medical staff. this is wednesday. and now she is able to look out of her window in the hospital room. the progress came as giffords prepares to move to rehabilitation facility in houston, texas this week to begin the next phase of her recovery. she was shot through the head less than two weeks ago while hosting a political event outside a grocery store in arizona. more than two decades ago, a newborn sick with fever was snatched from new york city hospital. her frantic mother returning to the emergency room to find an empty crib. today, police say that baby is now a 23-year-old woman and she has been reunited with her family. karlina white was 19 days old when she was abducted. she started to become suspicious of the woman who was raising her when she was 16. and she started to look for her birth mother. >> i thought about a lot because one day i was hoping

someone would knock on the door and say i am karlina. >> she was a missing link and we have got her back in the name of jesus hallelujah. hallelujah. >> incredible after all this time this happened. police are look for the woman who abducted and raised karlina white. you remember this woman? she fell into a small fountain when she was texting and walking and she became an internet sensation? now she is speaking out. she is even hired a lawyer to look into the possibility of suing the mall. she says she doesn't think it's funny. >> i get calls stating that i am on youtube and i am like are you kidding me and my nephew is like no you on youtube and i said i can't believe this and started crying and call him daddy i said they got me on youtube. when i went to work, and saw how they laughed and the

comment they made didn't think it was funny. >> she questioned why mall security heard laughing didn't help her. company that owns the mall says security is contracted through different company and they are investigating who posted the video online. >> 6:35. check out this video. a snowplow driver was clearing snow when the truck tipped over. see it there? it fell on on a -- on a -- on a snow covered hole. it took a crane to pull the truck out of the hole, the driver was not hurt. we are not headed to the superbowl, but what's the plan for next year if. >> the ravens have the final conference and there are staffing changes. governor o'malley continues his job, and it's going to be a tough road ahead. some decisions to close a huge state budget deficit. we will lock at the inaugural celebrations.

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now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and forecast certified most being a are the by weatherate tbhient to show you this winter weather add veesry map. we are surrounded to the west and north and east with advisories coming out of different weather service offices. it includes adams and york county and pa. you are watching in cecil and queen ann and caroline county. we will get it here. it's a matter of time. the national weather service office in sterling, virginia has been lagging behind in posting these. we will hit the criteria for snow. and most of it will fall overnight into the morning. in annapolis, this is a favorite. the brand new hd cam. look at that moonrise over the severn and this is from the u.s. naval academy where they are at freezing. we have dropped to freezing at harbor school and now 31 at st.

mary's elementary. we will hit an early high of 37 and drop off before the snow arrives this evening and tonight. >> reporter: a heads up in baltimore county. reports of a water main break near seven oaks elementary school in notingham. you could see icy conditions near there. as we look live at the roadways, 50 at 97, traffic is moving well on the westbound side. no issues across the bay bridge. northbound 97 look good as you head up towards 695 the baltimore beltway. reports of one dent in -- accident at north crane highway and furnace branch road. police are on the crone of that crash. now back to you. >> thanks. where is phylicia barnesch the question is on the minds of her family and friends. and baltimore police want to know where is the national media coverage in this case. plus, they were accused of setting a pit bull on fire back in 2009. now twin boys will be in a courtroom to explain their actions. and this might come as no surprise when you get in your

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now, good morning, maryland." good thursday morning. thanks for joining us. i am megan pringle. charlie has the day off he will be back tomorrow. we get started with meteorologist justin berk. now over to him with a look at the weather. >> good morning. i think 44. 31 in baltimore. we dropped a little bit in the past couple hours. cloud rogue in -- rolling in and there's going to be two waves of cold air. one coming now and the next one with the bulk of our snow overnight. and when it departs, it will leave bitterly cold air. it's cloudy and looks like snow tried to break out in the mountains of virginia. that's the leading edge of what's coming in and it will probably take all day to reach it. if it gets here before sunset, it's moving in fast he and may get out of here sat faster. light to moderate snow event and will race out by friday morning. snow amounts coming up but we are basically looking at increasing thickening clouds today. a midday high near 37 and study

and falling during the afternoon. now the snow arrives late afternoon through the evening and the heaviest stuff will be after midnight. one south, four plus north and we will break down the county by county snow cast map in moment. >> reporter: we are looking at traffic building around the area. very light on incidents as we look live here through the annapolis part of ann aid rundle county. traffic is -- anne arundel county. we have reports of a water main break up in notingham near 7 -- knottingham near seven oaks and an accident on ground north crane highway at furnace branch road. now back to you. we lost a firefighter. those are the words we heard from fire chief. mark falkenhan was a volunteer for fighter and husband and father of two. he was trying to save people from a burning apartment building and he never made it out alive. eye happened near loch raven boulevard south of the hillendale shopping center where we find abc2 news sherrie

johnson who has been live out there all morning. >> reporter: we are live here in hillendale war a volunteer -- where a volunteer firefighter lost his life while battling this blaze here. this happened yesterday. 43-year-old mark folkenhan was killed while trying to fight a fire. the calls came out after 6 p.m. when a kitchen fire happened on the second floor at the towson crossing apartment complex. two people that lived inside here building number 30, were critically injured and taken to two local hospitals. falkenhan sen out a may day distress call when he was trapped-side a third story apartment. his partner jumped out of a third floor wndo. he was on a third floor balcony and later died at st. joseph's medical senter. >> aid tragedy, and this man died in the line of duty saving lives. aid sad day for baltimore

county, but, we are appreciative of the efforts of our firefighters and the jupe they did in this fire. >> reporter: mark falkenhan row tired from the baltimore county fire department and he worked for the secret service. he leaves behind a wife and two children. reporting live, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >> it's been more than 20 years since a fire fighter in baltimore county has been killed. it happened in 1988. we lost cockeysville fireman who was 81who died fighting a warehouse fire n1984, three men died fighting the famous fire at a furniture store in dunn darg daubing. the last time the luther riel volunteer fire company lost someone it was in 1981. remember to with abc2 news for the latest on the develop story. we will stay on it all day. we have information on air as

well as online at abc 2 news.com. as soon as it becomes available, we will share it with you. 6:47. hundreds of people came out to say their final farewell to officer william torbit, jr. he was killed earlier this morning by friendly fire he's rushed to control a crowd. that investigation continues but yesterday, everybody stopped to honor him. he is remembered as a loving son and a great cop. >> they came out for will to show you how much he was loved by everybody. i am just going to miss him i just hope we learn from this and everybody can come together and stop the violence and keep will's family in your prayers. >> torbit he was beried yesterday afternoon -- buried yesterday afternoon. he is surviveed by both parents, six sifters and two brothers. baltimore city police are searching for a suspect accused

of shooting an officer walking to the car. the officer was in a parking garage at frederick and water streets around nine on tuesday night a few blocks from the city police headquarters. authorities say once the officer was confronted by the gunman, he he pulled out his service weapon to protect himself and was grazed by a bullet in the leg. prince george's county police say they are investigating their 14th murder of the year. officers were called to the 3500 block of terrance drive around 2:30 in the morning on wednesday. officers found a man shot in a cul-de-sac outside an apartment complex. that man 22 years old. his name is douglas hodge jordan junior from washington. he was taking to the -- taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. this coming comes a week after the county's last homicide. 6:49 right now. felicia -- phylicia barnes has been missing for more than three weeks and spokesperson for baltimore city police department is expressing frustration with the national

media over their lack of coverage of the missing teen. the local media covered the case extensively, the local police department feels that they have have been not very quick to pick it up in the national media of a african american childisappearing in the violent city. they are calling it the natalee holloway case. baltimore's mayor says she understands the frustrations of the case. >> i am very concerned as her family and friends are that she has been missing for so long without any clues about her whereabouts. i know it's frustrating and when it's frustrating and there are no answers, you look for answers and places to place a blame. it's farl. but we are doing everything we can to bring attention and to put the resources in place to help locate phylicia barnes. >> anyone who knows anything about her wases about is asked

to call 911 immediately. ten minutes away from seven. teens accused of setting a pit bull puppy on fire and causing death will stand trial tomorrow. they are 18 now. twin brothers travis and tree maine johnson will be in court on animal cruelty charges. we accuseched dousing the pit bull that -- the dog was given the nickname phoenix with gas loan and setting her on fire. it happened back in 2009. the boys were 16 at the time. dog had to be euthanized. an antianimal abuse task force was formed from this to study the city's response to such incidents and the group found it needed to take more of an active approach to cases. martin o'malley is the governor again and will begin the toughest job tomorrow unveiling the plan to close a massive state budget deficit. last night it was about the party with the celebration in full swing in mount royal. as part of the governor's

commitment to service, people who attended, were asked to bring a canned good. at a swearing in yesterday, he the governor says he is know it's tough road and had require big moves and a lot of sacrifice. mo afc championship showdown at m and t bank. the ravens will hold their yearly state of the ravens press conference this afternoon. last night, team introduceed new defensive coordinator and chuck said let's go out and reek havoc and play ravens defense the way they played for years. he describes what the locker room was like after saturday's loss in pittsburgh. >> you don't have any idea when you went in the locker room and looked in the eyes of the men of how they felt and what they poured knot season. only to be you know setback again. when he got up and i said oh, here we go he said i said

please dear god don't let this man retire. >> the mane was talking about was ray lewis but ray says he has no plans to call it quits. one other ravens note, ed reed pulled himself out of the pro bowl because of an injury. 6:53 right now. i am sorry, hon. the owner of cafe hon caused a bigger stir than taking the pink flamingoes down now show claimed ownership of the word hon and there were boycotts and answeringry phone calls bum this morning an apology from whiting. she says she is sorry to everyone in baltimore for misspeak and apologized for creating the impression she can stop the people from use the word hon. so go ahead and use the h word. it's okay. you probably suspected something like this asy go to and from work -- as you make

your way to and from work. baltimore is 5th in the number of hours the drivers are delayed. you endure 50 hours of delays every year. the citys with the worst commutes is chicago and washington, d.c., los angeles, and houston are next. that traffic study was done by the texas transportation institute and will be released today. if you are heading to the national zoo, you can see the two giant pandas. the zoo reached an agreement with china to keep the boy and the girl for five more years at a dramatically reduced cost. for the last six weeks, the two have been on a temporary lease extension while chinese and american officials fine-tune the details. so, go ahead and pay a visit to the national zoo. justin. now maur land most powerful doppler radar and forecast certified most accurate by weatherate. >> 6:54. you can see pandas in the snow. just look for the stripe.

i am sorry. 31. we are borderline. first wave of cold air at 20 in eerie and teens to chicago back to the upper midwest which will filter in behind the storm system. we have the developing snow. the arctic blast will ooze in behind it. most of it won't arrive until after dark. flurries or light know shower this afternoon. the bulk of the snow is into the mountains. we get close to midnight and early in the morning, and i think the bulk. snow will come with the arctic surge. so regardless of the light mix around the bay. that cold air may fluff up the snow especially north and west. 3 a.m. to 5 or 6 a.m., that's the heaviest and then it gets out in a hurry. by 8 or 9, we may see the sun come out. but it's going to be bittery cold with falling temperatures. here's average from anne arundel county towards howard and across the eastern shore to easton. about two inches. i am expecting just north of the airport for verification reasons, looking at north

baltimore and eldersburg and owings mills and kingsville and looks like fallston 3 to 4 hereford zone and southern pa and up to five inches more in cecil county the we will post this online. the main issue is it's tonight and early tomorrow morning and tanking temperatures after a high of 30 in the morning and we are looking for 20s over the weekend. lows in the teens and more snow with arctic air early next week. kim. >> reporter: a disabled vehicle on the outer loop near liberty road has got us a little better than stop and g traffic is heavyand that disabled vehicle obviously affecting the way people are able to speed up and slow down. so expect delays as you make your way on the west side of the outer loop. taking you to the maps, we have a couple water main problems north and east of the beltway including one in notingham at seven oaks elementary school. expect icy conditions there. also in parkville, water main break and we have a disabled vehicle 95 southbound at

entrance ramp to the bw park wee. >> you are like little kim. >> reporter: no not little kim. >> all right. thanks, kim. a classy look. thanks for joining us this morning. see you in a little bit.

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