a bottle of vodka, but it was a dollar spent on a powerball ticket two days ago that came back 125 million. >> i was all butts flies all day yesterday because this is really big. >> reporter: because the randomly drawn winning ticket passed through jeff wesley's hands as he sold it to whomever bought it. part air family that owns this huge for 61 years the wesley's stands to make $25,000 for selling that ticket. the money topping off the excitement publicity and for right now the mystery of who won. >> i've always said that for a liquor store to hit it is almost like you hitting the lottery yourself. it's huge. and i'm very excited. i mean, it's really great. everybody's calling everybody's talking. it's awesome. >> reporter: while they don't know exactly who bought the win can ticket just yet they do have a fairly good idea. after all it was bought exactly at 3:00 13:00 p.m. on christmas eve, and they do

have cameras inside the store. >> if it's somebody we know personally we can show the welt and health with him. >> reporter: the surveillance video perhaps not indispute able evidence for john wesley. identity of the winner may be masked by the grainy video but the hope is he or she is a regular or friend close enough to express a simple thank you for what is now a white hot spotlight on this quiet second generation family business. >> before you just don't know if it was real or not. my agent came in and said you are the winner. we knew reality was here. >> reporter: the reality of new found publicity increased business and a new bump in lottery sales. >> anything is grateful. you guys being here today is going to give us a bump. everything's going to help a little bit. in this economy we'll take whatever we can get. >> reporter: whether in generosity or notoriety the wesley's enjoying their slim odds at 125 million. in elkton brian kuebler abc2

news. now the wesley's did say the winner called the lounge to confirm the numbers but didn't leave the name. he or she has yet to come forward. the wesley's say they will split the money made off this ticket between the family and the employees. we have another feel good christmas story right in our own backyard. a baltimore family welcomed their daughter into the world yesterday. teal barton gave birth to baby ray around 5:20 in the morning at g b mc she wasn't due until january 24th but decided it's too long. teal and her husband were getting some sleep before the holiday got started but wide awake right in the middle of the night. >> 1:00 in the morning i said oh, my goodness neigh mai water just broke. my husband is like are you playing? >> no i'm not playing my water broke. >> baby ray was presented with a christmas stocking knitted by

the hospital volunteers. ray is the bartons second child both mom and baby are doing great. now the presents jamie birthday and christmas. oakland winchester 36 york 37. colder to the west but that colder air sinking in to central maryland and we're going to drop quickly temperature wise. few clouds on the satellite room nothing on the radar but there is big rain to the south and west and this headed our way by tomorrow afternoon. climbing to the 40s tomorrow near 50. rain a good bet by the afternoon commute. we'll talk much more about when this gets out of here and how things shape up into your new year's eve weekend coming up. >> got plans head out for some after christmas shopping or maybe dinner with friends this week or new year's eve wondering how many layers you're going to need to wear.

check out the a cornerback 2 weather app. that way you can have the hourly forecast weekend outlook 7-day forecast live interactive radar any time you want it in the palm your head. go to abc2news.com/weather. we have a 35-year-old man ended up spending christmas in jail after anne arundel county police found him stuck. they found two people breaking into fitzgerald cadillac. when miss got there john march sell us johnson was caught in a fence and arrested. they found an empty tow truck with an engine running nearby. came detectives at 41022219616789. a two-alarm fire broke out very early this morning in a baltimore county home. according to fire officials county firefighters were called to the home in the 12,000 block

of wedgewood road and heights hydes. no injuries were reported the cause of the fire is still under investigation. although they were shut down today for the holiday a suspicious package was found at city hall. somebody discovered a food container wrapped in a t-shirt with the word bomb written on it. as a precaution police shut down several streets while they investigated, but the package turned out to be nothing dangerous. all of the streets were reopened just a short time later. baltimore city police are still looking for the person who shot and killed someone over the weekend here in cherry hill. officers found a person who had been shot in the head laying in the grass in the 2700 block of giles road. he was pronounced dead a little before midnight on christmas eve. the corporate world made plenty of news in 2011. we had bankruptcies we had mergers, hacking scandals and of course a tragic loss. abc2 news matt cherry has a

look back at the year in business. >> reporter: the peak book closed on borders in 2011 the retailers filed for bankruptcy after 40 years in operation. it blamed the economy and changing book industry. hackers did their best to disrupt business over the year. companies including lockheed martin nintendo and facebook all fell prey to online attacks. in june citigroup announced 200,000 accounts were compromised. and hackers breached sony's playstation network accesss the personal information of 70 million use earnings. some mega mergers and buy-outs had mergers. microsoft bought skype for $8.5 billion. google she would out 12.5 billion nor motorola cell phone business. at&t hoped to create the largest wireless company in a merger with t-mobil but the

justice department filed to block the merger. millions of blackberry users had to make do without e-mail or text during a three day outage in october that spread to nearly every continent. blackberry maker research in motion offered customers $100 worth of free apps as a consolation. >> the worldwide outages we experienced this week were unfortunate. we restored full service as quickly as we could. >> reporter: netflix lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers after raising prices and attempting to rename its dvd name. it must now get clear consent from users before sharing material. its privacy controls will be subject to independent review for the next 20 years. news corps british paper news of the world was caught in a

phone hacking scandal issued its final edition after 168 years. rupert murdock apologized but denied any knowledge of cell phone hacking. americans were just plain fed up with big banks in 2011 after public outcry institutions including bank of america j. p. morgan chase and wells fargo all dropped plans to add debit card fees. the business world lost a revolutionary innovator in 2011 april many founder and ceo steve jobs died of pancreatic cancer in october. while on medical leave in mary he made a surprise appearance to unveil the ipad 2. >> we've been working on this product for a while and i just didn't want to miss today. and although the calendar year is coming to a close stores are still going to make a huge chunk of their annual profits over the next couple of days. financial experts say even calling today mighty monday. in the spirit of black friday and cyber monday today is expected to be one of the busiest shopping days of the

year. with steeper post christmas sales lots of shoppers were waiting for the holidays to pass to do buying for themselves. >> you get gift cards and stuff for the holidays it's always a great discount you can combine the two. why not. >> usa today reports predicted 60% jump in day after christmas shopping and the consumer research group shopper track also says this day is usually the second highest revenue day for stores. the gifts we get aren't always exactly what we were hoping for. so if you're planning to hit the mall this week to exchange or return something we've got some tips you should hear before you go. if you plan to take something back it's best to have a receipt you know that. without one you'll only get store credit. want to return something you bought online, check the policy on the web site. a lot of stores will take back items bought through their web sites. if you plan to take something pack, don't destroy the packaging. keep all stickers, labels and tags intact.

>> you want to be sure not to open the packaging if you're not sure you want it because again, if you can lose all the tags and all the labels on the item if you destroy the packaging or rip it apart you'll have a much more difficult time returning it. >> some stores charge a restocking fee especially on electronics. if you plan to hit the mall or even your favorite shopping site online make sure you check out our holiday guide abc2news.com/ holiday you'll find the latest rebates digital coupons everything you need to know before you make your next purchase. taking advantage of seniors and plenty of other bad behavior out there. check out which scammers and schemeers we busted this year on our 2011 naughty list. and they call themselves anonymous after claiming respond for a recent credit card hack. authorities are trying to put a name to these cyber criminals.

49 above average. last night was 47. leonard you get an abc2 storm umbrella. 5 days in a row we've lit that guarantee. leonard you may need that umbrella tomorrow. we'll talk about this next rainstorm and look to your new year's eve when we come back.

. naughty or nice. the holidays are the time when your behavior comes back to bite you. we've seen plenty of bad behavior in this year's scam alerts. abc2 news queen of them all.

>> reporter: santa's not the only one that makes a list and checks it twice. when it comes to scam artists we're also keeping track we've got our own line up of who's been naughty this year. at the top of our list the man accused of stealing money from dozens of local schools and ptas this fall. queen ann counties deputies joseph gill promised ravens players for anti-bullying assemblies kept the funds when he couldn't deliver. after we reported his theft charges and showed you his picture gill was arrested in aberdeen and will spends the holidays behind bars. >> did you take advantage of these people. >> reporter: tommy clack takes the number 2 spot. deserves coal in his stocking for multi-state multi-county paving operation we than covered. after rolling seniors that cost soft them tens of thousands of

dollars in driveway work. a slew of criminal charges for acting as a contractor without a license. >> thank god justice finally. >> reporter: justice for those wronged by the man number 3. joseph horton. the locksmith had to face the music in 2011 he lost a civil case filed by the attorney general after overcharging customers and was ordered to pay $400,000 in damages. horton was also found guilty of criminal theft and fraud and is still waiting to hear if he'll spend part of the new year in jail. if you want to check out other bad operators and weigh in on who should be called out for bad behavior this year check out or scam alert page you'll find it under money tab on abc2news.com. joce sterman abc2 news. check out joce's scam alerts head to our web site abc2news.com click on the money tab on the home page and then

scam alert. the computer hacking company that goes by the name anonymous is at it again. this time they claim they stole credit card accounts and other private client information from the u. s. security firm named stat for. several clients reported finding unauthorized transactions from their account. be careful out there. it's a billion dollar industry so chances are you probably either gave oregon a gift card during the holidays. a new survey shows its probably won't even get used. the national retail federation found that $41 billion in gift cards have gone unspent since 2005. it's welcome news for retailers who also usually benefit from customers who do redeem them but ends up spending more than the cards is worth. . still breezy out there tonight. a little breeze on federal hill. 40 degrees right now.

winds calm at the airport but obviously there are still some breezes it's just that snapshot of an observation we actually didn't have a lot of winds out at the airport for that moment. breezy through the day and there were some early clouds, but no precipitation then we went to a brilliant blue sky to finish out this day after christmas. hope everyone got everything they wanted or at least most of it. el could it city today, beautiful sunset here. and why not. one more stop howard county. laurel finding a clear scenario into that sunset time frame. again, maryland's most powerful radar also crystal clear. there's not much weather around the area nor has there been all weekend. but that is changing new storm on the map. show you that in just one second. temperatures now running in the 40s and upper 30s actually. we've got 37 in york now 34 in winchester 34 in dover. i want the show you tomorrow we'll be up near 5 actually but the chances for rain going up through the day katonville

dundalk central parts of the state take a look this one small area of cloud cover really a non-- not an issue. but out south and west we've got more cloud cover rolling in that's the leading cloud shield on a bigger storm. large rainmaker here putting down some pretty heavy and steady rain in tennessee out through arkansas down through louisiana. this texas low is going to come up and bring us quite a bit of rain we think as we go into say after lunchtime tomorrow right through tomorrow evening. in the meantime still another 12, 15 hours of dry, cool breezy weather here across maryland. and timing wise tomorrow you're planning your day out whether you got it off or going back to work clouds increase through the morning but you're dry on the morning commute. as you go towards lunchtime watch out for rain here and better chances as we go toward that evening commute by 6:00 tomorrow evening. that looks like our best chance for some rain around here. will there be any kind of of a wintry precipitation with the system, it doesn't look like it. in fact it looks like only

extreme western misdemeanor will get snow. garrett county washington county points east looks like nothing but rain. clear and cold less breezy by the time we get to the overnight hours. the winds have died off quite a bit. tomorrow up to 48 clouding up as we see rain developing through the afternoon hours lasting into the early evening hours. then we'll taper those off to just a few showers remaining toward tomorrow night. but again it all ends before we would get cold enough to produce any kind of wintry weather. your 7-day forecast looking ahead to the new year. yeah. temperatures will moderate after a chilly day wednesday with breezy conditions. we push back to near 50 both friday and into new year's eve saturday. so right now jamie looking like a pretty decent start to the new year. it looks like december will go out on a fairly quiet note. >> okay. and cincinnati is going to have what about in the 40s? >> i think it's very similar to here weather wise.

>> the bengal fans there are not enough of them. they are not going to be able to sell out. we have to rely on ravens fans to buy tickets. go to stub hub by a ticket. >> 264 one way out from cincinnati. let's take a look at the ravens what happened on saturday on our christmas eve. it was an early christmas gift because you got the game ball. the game started out seemed like it was going to be a blowout the browns got back in the game a couple of touchdowns all of a sudden the game was close the ravens were able to hold on to the league christmas eve victory apart from the browns next you for the ravens the cincinnati bengals and again the bengals are on the verge of having a plaque out if they don't sell enough tickets. here's a look what's coming up on abc2 news at 11:00. the great christmas clean up begins. abc2 works with tips to keep

you and your family safe as you throw away unwanted wrappings and electronics. what happens in vegas we're going to tell you what this man found in to in in the cesar palace envelopes. join us on abc 2 news at 11:00.

. let's take a look at the weather. >> all right jamie tomorrow a day that will see changing weather. chances for rain going up by midday. look for steady rain between 4:00 and 6:00 in the evening tapering off tomorrow night again checking that extended forecast things will get milder again as we go from friday into saturday. >> we were just talking about they were selling tickets 2 for one. 2 for one sale in cincinnati. >> if cincinnati were to win they would get in the playoffs. >> hey listen world news is next at 6:30. we'll see you tonight after christmas. tonight at 11:00.