struck the boy, she said she was just driving along, minding her own business, suddenly heard a loud and disturbing thump on the front of her car, didn't know what happened. she doesn't believe she was going to fast and police haven't talked about charges in this case. she feels he came out of nowhere and she was unable to avoid him and knows she did strike him. so -- the police, baltimore police came to talk to us with what little information they have. here is what they said. well work they said was basically the facts they know now. they don't believe any charges are pending. they said that the two boys were walking east on putty hill, one of them who was -- we believe 15 ran into the street along putty hill and was struck by one car and then by a second. putty hill is still shut down at this section right now. so this is a road that a lot of

people use to avoid the beltway. that's not happening today. it's affecting photograph nick a lot of other areas. that 15-year-old lost his life in just the blink of an eye around 2:45. the boy has not been identified at this time. we are working to get you that information. if we have new information we will bring you that in this newscast. >> police from four different agencies chase a man from edgewater all the way to lands down and it ends with the suspect shot in the middle of a neighborhood. >> reporter: it started when police tried to stop a car that matched the description of a car that was used in the robbery in baltimore last night. folk who live in the area say it was like watching something out of a movie. >> i walked out and i was like -- my god,. >> reporter: a line of police cars running at high speed through neighborhood streets. >> white car was first and all

the police, you know, 25, 30 homes, right behind him. made a right hand turn that i didn't think they would make it because they were going to fast and then they made another turn up here and that was it. >> reporter: the chase starting in edgewater and ending here. at least 30 miles through three jurisdictions involving police from several counties. the man behind the wheel police say waved a gun at officers as he fled up the interstate. he allegedly rammed two cruisers as he finally stopped. >> he bails out of the vehicle. he is armed as he exits the vehicle. he drops the gun but then he goes to get it back. when he goes to get it one officer from baltimore -- two officers fired. >> shots fired. no officers are hit. they are okay. >> reporter: the suspect is hit

but his injuries not life threatening and in the middle of this area people are seeing law and order, a thing to close to home. >> it's horrible. my son goes to school right here. it was all before he had to go to school. it was chaos. >> reporter: right after this happened schools were placed on lockdown but it was lifted quickly. the suspect was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. police are trying to find why the suspect drove away and if he was involved in last night's robbery in baltimore. abc 2news. >> we have a man shot inside a city barbershop still in the this hour. it happened on hartford near cliff view avenue. this will put us in east baltimore. the 32-year-old was shot in the eye, the finger and the arm. police believe someone wanted to rob him. no arrests have been made. a second -- now we will talk act a court case. there is a court case that should interest anyone with a child in school.

a family suing city schools because they say their son was bullied and the staff did nothing aboutt. we are live on day one of this case. >> reporter: the jury is seated, they heard opening arguments and are now call witnesses. their 10-year-old was a special needs student and was threatened, bullied and beaten at two schools. they have filed a lawsuit against the school board. the couple said they went to the principal several times but the bullies wasn't stopped in either school. now the parents hope this trial will send a message for school systems to put a stop to bullying. >> today to basically try to make the school system correct the problems. which know we aren't the only families. >> reporter: now this trial

will continue tomorrow for a short day and then-continue into next week. >> second teen now facing charges tonight from that fight at chesapeake high in baltimore back on tuesday. police say a 15-year-old faces charges of disrupting school activities and assaulting a police officer. the 16-year-old was facing charges already. a school resource officer had to use pepper spray month break up the fight and that ended up sending 16 students to the hospital and forced the school to evacuate until it could be aired out. two penn state official also be in court tomorrow. the former vice president and athletic director are accused of lying to a grand jury and failing to report sex abuse allegations to police back in 2002. lawyers for both men say they will go forward with the hearing challenge all the evidence. earlier this week jerry

sandusky waived his right to a preliminary hearing. as the iraq war comes to an end you have to think of the 83 heros from our state that have lost their lives live lives. abc 2news with the final countdown. >> reporter: after nine years so much violence in iraq and controversy at home, the war is over. in baghdad today, the last of 4,000 troops cased the united states forced flag and will soon send home. a million and a half served here, 4500 died. >> the cost was high. the blood and treasure of the united states and also for the iraqi people. those lives have not been lost

in vain. they gave their -- to an independent, free iraq. >> reporter: shaun fox is one of the last left. he was 14 when this war started. he shipped almost everything home. >> i have -- pretty much just got my bag, just a lot of clothes, and i guess the most important thing is my laptop over here, something to keep me sane waiting to go home. >> reporter: before that one more mission. he preps his men to help provide security for today's ceremony. they drive into the city, the only problem the iraqi police are supposed to patrol with never show up. fox can't drive around without them. >> for them it's like why are the americans driving this route, we don't need them, we can do it ourselves. >> reporter: whether that remains true is the major

question here. the other question, will tension return, in one area thousands rallied against the united states and iraqi government. the american soldiers fates are clear, they will all be home by christmas. the fate of the country they left isn't so obvious. abc news baghdad. >> just down the parkway from us an army private will have his first military court hearing tomorrow. bradley manning is a accused of handing over thousands of classified secrets to the website wikileaks including a video clip of a laughing helicopter crew gunning down 11 men including a news photographer and his driver. the article 32 hearing will determine if the case moves onto a court martial. for what seems like the 09th team this year senate and house leaders think they can

avoid a government shout down. some issues need to be agreed oned on and both sides are painting a rosy picture of a deal soon being made. the middle of december. 60 degrees outside. this is -- we are one day closer to spring but federal weather forecasters are predicting that the east coast is going to see warmer than normal temperatures to start the new year. we have the look at the warm thursday night forecast. >> reporter: jamie that is so depressing, the idea of a warmer than average winter. unless you are a big snow fan. i think the mountains will still have snow. take a look. we are dealing just rain. december rain and not particularly cold rain. as we take a look at the radar the heaviest and steadiest of this stuff. southeast of baltimore. along the bay bridge. back up through centerville. rain in this direction.

temperatures running mild as the long tomorrow seasonal outlook would indicate. the case tonight. slow fall through the 50s, more showers, we stay mild and will talk act the changes on the way for not just tomorrow but through the weekend coming up. >> all right. >> just don't change anything. facebook, a new timeline design is going to automatically organize your photographs, your status updates and relationship changes into an interactive timeline of your facebook life. let's say you announce are you engaged, you can expand that into a wide screen format while your daily jogging update can stay small. you have to opt in but it's a timeline of your life flame a rainy day, let's find who is driving the safest car in america in the mini car

category the fiat500. ford focus, chevy sonic, scion, midsized honda accord, large family van, there are 115 listed on this list that's just been released by the insurance institute for highway safety. the camry is the safest in america. so a guy walks in to a k- mart -- sounds like a joke. no joke. just the beginning of a great holiday tale of a secret santa. and george clooney nominated for a golden globe. and name the top ten wedding movies of all time. netflix has its list and we will compare it to yours coming up next.

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. hollywood buzzing, over the announcement of the golden globe awards. >> the year of the silent film ended 80 years ago but the artist, a 2011 silent film about silent films leads the golden globe was six nominations, among them best comedy or musical. >> best motion picture, drama,. >> reporter: when the nominations were announced, the help, and the story the descendants tied with five each. a 20-year-old was nominated for her role. >> its been a magical ride.

>> reporter: also the paris adventure hugo, the ides of march, money ball and war horse. >> this is wide open. a lot of movies aren't here like girl with the dragon tattoo,. >> reporter: on the small screen there was boardwalk elm mire, along with 30 rock and agree. the voters are 90 journalists the foreign press association and are normally seen as a good indication of what movies will be nominated for best picture at the academy awards. >> the hollywood reporter has just come out with the top ten

most rented movies of all time. at number 11 and a half naked gun. at number ten no country for old men, next up the iron man back in 2008 ; number eight, inception, then sherlock holmes, then we have the departed, that was good. yeah. now the top five. the drama the hurt locker, the 5th most rented, the curious case of benjamin buton is 4th. the third, bucket list and the oldest film on the list, crash and the most popular netflix rental, the blind side. you know every time that's on ray louis will text michael orr hey, blind side is on.

a look back on the biggest stories of the year. the special the year airs right here on abc2 tonight. katie sits down to get the take on the year and will talk to dancing with the stars champ. jr martinez. he shall was a hero on the battle field when the humvee was in hit a land mine. >> i have passion for life and i really have passion about using my second chance that i have been given and the things very learned to help people while they are still in their first chance, make a choice to be a survivor and not a victim. >> reporter: and you can catch the special tonight but first a holiday classic. a charlie brown christmas at 8:00 followed by the year at nine and stay tuned for the news at 11. >> now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> all right.

let's get a look at some of the rain coming down on the radar. there is a good amount of wet weather tonight and a lot of it is here on the central part of the western half of the eastern shore. if you get all that. centerville, graysonville, getting rain. denton clearing out and you can see areas just clearing out in the last few minutes. that's all good news. there is a little more rain to the west. we will show you that in second. 78 right now. at pwi. take a look at some of the conditions. mount ee, rie. tough to find sun at all. plenty of rain and if you got caught in the brief downpour that's how it goes. winds out of the south. you can see around six to 12 miles an hour. we have a wind at the top of

the hour. that's a pretty steady south breeze gusting to near 30. the current temperatures around 62 washington, 62 cambridge. you see the first wave of rain, out toward the west, there is another line of rain. that front continuing to drive its way in out of the west. that will take a while to clear through maryland. by morning tomorrow we should have wind shifting north and temperatures starting to drop in to the afternoon. the trend shows basically hit and miss showers through about two in the morning and then we dry out. there is rain to the south of us on friday but appears it stays just south of maryland and maybe hits the eastern shore a little into friday night but i think we are dry around here and cloudier and colder especially into saturday.

overnight 43, showers will taper off late tonight. one or two in the morning. tomorrow 48, cooler, windy, cloudy, the forecast tomorrow night 32, that's doing going to set us up for a frost and the seven day forecast showing bottom line a trend for the colder into the weekend here. we have 46 saturday, 45 on sunday. as the seasonal outlook told us today, no major shots of cold air over the next seven days. not to bad for mid-december. >> that's good. thank you. >> all across the land we are seeing a chain reaction of kindness. shoppers helping strangers and the trend which started in michigan has spread now to a k- mart in nebraska. a donor stops by a k-mart and asks to make the spirits bright. k-mart petitioned a call to its customerring saying but one pen keep the lay away in store. >> owe a penny and we were

like a penny? okay. i got a nickel. >> i was just amazed. it's nice to see people that do that. >> reporter: now some family is covering another lay away by donating their savings to others. we won't have any bill this is christmas. you are out taking your medicine right now to lower the cholesterol but there may be another benefit. how it could help you fight the flu. we will explain that. and a possible break-in the so-called geezer bandit. how a halloween costume may lead police to him.

. take a look at the health. the pills you take to lower cholesterol could help you fight the flu. that from a study, and researchers looked at data from more than 3,000 patients in the hospital during 2007 and 2008. the flu season then. they found people taking the medications called statens were 40% less likely to die. they say it's to early to recommend getting them to everybody battling serious cases of the flu. the government is now going to put new limits on using chimps in medical research after a group said the tests should be a last resort.

they agreed that science is advanced enough that the chimps are rarely needed. new research funding has been temporarily barred they will review ongoing projects. we will be right back. @ @

. now abc 2news at 5:30. >> delegate taking the sheriff to court. we will find why he filed his lawsuit and how the judge ruled today. a new clue could lead to the person called the geezer bandit. why they searched a company that specializes in halloween masks. have its effecting on santa. abc working for you offering up ideas on how to answer the questions about wish lists and more. right now tonight a e