appeal to university president wallace lowe. >> one of the things that this school prides itself on is 27 sports, and that say last lot for the institution. >> reporter: with the department losing more than $7 million a year, a commission formed by the president to review its finances says it should cut eight of the programs from men's tennis and tract to acrobatics in addition to swimming. >> to see this team be cut is just devastating. we've worked so hard just in the three and a half years that i've been here and our coaches do so much for us. it's an emotional thing. >> reporter: the commission recommend honoring the college scholarships if their sports are eliminated but the offer rings hollow to many. >> i've known nothing else since then, so they may give meet money but what mi going to do.

>> reporter: some sports put the university in the hole along with building boxes. the students choose to point out what's at stake if sports are eliminated. some members of the swimming team are poised to make an international hall splash, if only their program can continue to tread water. >> we have at least eight or nine people who have already qualified for olympic trials and are planning to be here. >> reporter: at college park, jeff hager, abc2 news. >> now the swim teams have already started an online petition which has gone -- gotten more than 5,000 signatures. among those who signed, michael phelps and katie huff. a maryland student has been chosen as a national finalist for the wendy's high school ease

man award. danielle king, a student at c milton wright was chosen as one of 12 finalists it. arecognizes honors in academic and athletic service. each will receive a crystal high school heisman's trophy, $10,000 donation to the respective high school. all right. let's take a look at tonight's top stories. former penn state assistant coach jerry sandusky talked about the child sex abuse allegations. he said he showered with boys and hugged limb but called it horseplay. he is accused of sexually abusing eight boys over a

12-year period. after dodging us for weeks. abc2 news joce sterman had a face to face man in a paving scheme. tommy clack is charged with acting as a contractor without lap license. clack has been banned from business in two other states and clack was supposed to enter a guilty plea in anne arundel county but has backed out. a community in pasadena is upset over a proposal to put hundreds of new homes or apartments along with the commercial development. a zoning change would allow developers to build a large commercial development and housing complex at the intersection of long him and mountain road. development would tear out 26 acres of woods along the long hill area road. neighbors in long him want their

councilman to amend the zoning plan, but it has to be done by the 21st. weather wise, things have changed today. the clouds have rolled. the showers have come. the winds have died. we're tracking light to moderate showers right up through havre de grace. temperatures have been running higher. a few spots falling into the purr 50s, lake glenwood. the rest of the evening low 60s. we'll call about cooler temps coming up. now to the latest developments in the case of missing baby lisa irwin. there's new developments on the

night the baby disappeared. >> reporter: now there's a phone call out there, that lasted less than a minute. it came in just after midnight from a cell phone debra bradley claimed was stolen from her house. they do know the person called megan wright's phone. police took her cell a questioned her. in october she told "good morning america" she never took that call and when she got the phone back the call log was deleted. a drifter named dane, said dane seemed agitated and had easy access to drugs. >> covering up something for a friend. >> reporter: now the private investigator said this new lead supports his client's innocence but police say, so far, this is

one of 1,000 tips they've been chasing. they want to talk to dane. they say he is not a suspect. thanks a lot. police in washington state have a new development in the missing of a 2-year-old. he has been missing for more than a week. he was last seen with his mother. so far, she has refused to cooperate. meanwhile, there's an online dating profile. it matches so-called sugar daddies with mommies with sugar babies. on it a personnelled jb said she is looking for financial stability and assistant. the site's owner said there's no way to determine if the profile was created by the child's mother. according to the site, the last time jb accessed the account was october 26th. that's 10 days before sky disappeared. a family with a daughter in hospice knows that time is not

on their side. so they decided to make christmas come early and did it. remember when you got the request to find out which band best described you. if you answered the quiz, you want to make sure your secure information is not floating out there. we'll show you how.

tonight people in southern indiana are cleaning up a big mess after a tornado hit. the storm's 95-mile-an-hour winds uprooted trees, tore off roofs and shattered windows. a year ago this month part of the square burned to the ground during the huge fire. the town was starting to recover. talk about dazed and confused. this deer stood in the middle of a busy road for about a half an hour until the sheriff's deputy came to the rescue. the dash cam captured the ordeal. he carried her to the side of the road. the deer eventually relaxed and

sprinted into the woods. >> the spirit of christmas arrived early in iowa. when she was diagnosed with a brain tumor, her family wanted to make sure she didn't miss christmas. they started decorating her hospice room. the word spread on facebook. in a matter of days, some 900 christmas cards arrived -- the true spirit of christmas. the polls keep going up and down but as you get close to the primary, they're hitting the usual ground. if you plan to fly for the holidays, we'll tell you what to look out for.

everybody knows the best place for a good time is mississippi. and that's only until they visited us in louisiana. which is a distant second to sunny florida. for beautiful vacation, nothing beats alabama. ok, we'll never agree on who's best. but we can all agree on one thing. the gulf's the worlds number one vacation spot. and we've gone all out to make this year the best ever. mississippi has wonderful people, great music, and the beautiful outdoors. louisiana's the best seafood you'll ever eat. shrimp gumbo, crab cakes, etouffee. florida means beautiful beaches and sugar white sands. actually experts agree that the best beaches are here in alabama. which can't compare to a good time on the gulf in mississippi.

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have you noticed annoying pop-ups when checking your facebook page? sometimes they could be accessing your personal information. we have tips to help get rid of the facebook apps. >> reporter: have you ever noticed these notices? it could be a result of your facebook apps. notices from your favorite news sites. they also bring access to your personal information and it may be doing it without your knowledge. here's how you check and delete them. go to your facebook page. in the upper righthand corner you'll see the home site where you can check your account settings. on the lefthand side you'll see apps. it's about the fourth item down. here's a number of apps that i signed up for. some i didn't know i had. i-photo upload. what you'll see is all of these

sites and items they have access to, photos, videos, my basic information. so we can edit this but you edit it by deleting the app. we go to rotten tomatoes. on the righthand side it says remove the app it. asks if that's okay. you remove the app. go through, again, checking your app sites for what you want and what you don't. rocky live. here's one i see. i have no need for this. you can remove that app, take it off your facebook page. you control your message what you want people to see giving them access because it is your page, therefore your information and one more way abc2 news is working for you. charlie crowson. >> abc2 news is helping you become socially smart. you can watch and read stories about things you should and should not do on social media. find out the three facebook

settings that you need to check right away. you'll find that on our website at abc2news.com. start off with a little tool on the radar. there is some rain, no question about that. light showers around baltimore, just enough to make the roads wet, more significant band of showers south of d.c. now and the most heavy steady rain wove rae got on the radar is from cumberland northwestward to pittsburgh. pat bwi a temperature of 6 -- at bwi a temperature of 63. the barometer is beginning to fall. the storm is on the way. we've got more in a second. first show you the skies above bel air. harford county, it was a great one. that november look, november rain coming in late but not a cold rain, at least not yet.

that will change by late tomorrow night and temperatures will be dropping. baltimore, early sunset. to the west temperatures dropping somewhat. we're in the 40s out to the west and 60s at the beaches. mid-60s in the baltimore area. at the airport 67. so that was unseasonably warm. that more significant band of rain in west virginia and southwestern pennsylvania. it's not going to move very rapidly towards baltimore. it will bring the chance for showers. the main storm, just now beginning to develop down here in the eastern part of texas, the arkansas plus texas. that's where the storm formation is. it indicates that main rain system will come up and impact us as we go into tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. so the heaviest steadiest rain

is set to arrive later. you can seat -- see the contrast. that's going to put it on track. we'll show you on our future trent-- trend. the main storm coming in tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening. looks like it will be ugly. we clear out. thursday cloudy, breezy and friday the temps bounce back. your wednesday forecast 58, rain likely, could be heavy at times. again, rain will continue tomorrow evening but diminish overnight into the early part of our thursday. should see nothing more than a stray shower. cooler temperatures the story as we stay in the upper 40s for a couple of days. this weekend we do bounce back. low 60s by sunday.

kelly? in tonight's democracy 2012, we are seven weeks away from the iowa primary. >> in iowa retail politics matter. voters expect to look a candidate in their eyes. they didn't have to go far to do so. we had four candidates in the hawkeye state. why the focus? seven weeks until the iowa caucus is slated for january 3rd, coming in a week before new hampshire. then look at the history. six of the last nine iowa caulk couples winners have gone -- caucus winners have gone on to capture the nomination. also, it as a game changer in 2008. a lot of folks thought hillary

clinton would win in iowa. instead, barack obama did. in iowa, people are trying to get the right tone, coact with the voters who are going to go our on a cold january night. today rick perry decided to talk about government waste. >> washington is so broken, that we will not accept anything less than a complete overhaul of the way business is done. >> reporter: here's newt gingrich on energy. >> if you take the next billion dollars and say would you rather buy energy from iowa or iran, i choose iowa. >> reporter: herman cain hoot state of iowa will set the tone for this upcoming primary season. >> reporter: we know iowa is also about managing the expectations. mitt romney has focused his campaign in new hampshire. now we know next week he's going back to iowa. he lost the last time around to

mike huckabee. this time he said he'd love to win. look at this new bloomberg poll. top tier candidates, four in a statistical dead heat. six out of 10 iowa voters say they may still change their mind. that's what's going to keep this interesting. >> definitely neck and neck. rick perry was talking about his plan to dismantle washington. what is that about? >> reporter: he's talking about uprooting this government system in washington, taking on government waste. then he did something a little more unusual. take a listen. >> time to create a part-time congress where their pay is cut in half, their office budgets are cut in half and their time in washington is cut in half. >> reporter: cutting congress time in half, rick perry looking to connect with the voters, do something to get him-- them in

his corner. kelly. >> thanks. interesting to see how that will go over. let's check in with jamie. coming up at 6:00, this is not your typical horse race. how this horse won a unique trip kel crown. you'll find out at 6:00. how wise is it to pull your wisdom teeth. why the surgery is becoming far more common but not when patients are dealing with a lot of pain. i'm jamie cost tell low. here's a preview of what's ahead. >> what if you're in medical trouble and a hero came to your rescue. hear what happens tonight. ♪

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in tonight's consumer alert, if you're using wi-fi to access the internet at the airport, you could be giving hackers your account. >> reporter: travelers waiting for their flight often pass the time by going online. wi-fi networks have made that easy and dangerous. >> once they connect with me and start surfing the internet, now what i will do is grab all their traffic. >> reporter: we launched a fake network called l.a.x. free wi-fi. it shows how a hacker can record everything off a computer by

tracking what i was doing on my laptop. >> if they go to their bank, twitter account, love letters, i can grab that. >> reporter: if you're at a public sporkts find out who the wi-fi provider is and change your pass wards often. if you do go online using a public wi-fi, keep in mind someone play be watching you. >> good information. >> cal ripken. he's wrapped up his basketball teaching -- baseball teaching. coming up on abc2 news at 6:00, it starts right now. going to impact public safety, the education system,

the environment, wildlife in the area in which we have a lot of, all will be impacted by this development. >> is pasadena about to change? plans are to have this anne arundel town grow up in a hurry. and the man charged with scamming people out of money for paving work. for being the fittest horse after the race. >> this horse ran the equivalent of 100 preaknesss in one day, all that after a life-threatening injury. an abc2 news fewer -- viewer tipped us off with this story. roosevelt leftwich has the story. >> reporter: the proposed zoning change who allow the residential development to