snow and i know there's a lot of excitement and the best kind of snow because it didn't stick on the pavement. some places got that snow to stick and get that. you can see it filling up manchester high while we were watching the snow and look at the fields off winters mill and not much stickage in that location. snow and some of that light coating of white nighs. southern p.a. and this morning's temperatures range from a mild 36 in man chest erin it's 20s from bel air to towson and woodbine and 34 annapolis by the bay. we have had clear skies and another band of clouds whirling in and we could wind up with a pretty sunrise. it's more clouds where this came from and the next weather system spurring up warmer temperatures. and if anything, it's rain pushing into ohio right now. and we could watch maybe some rain drops in the west side later today. we will push 48 by lunchtime warming to 52 this afternoon and again this evening, overnight, some light rain showers and we are staying mild through new year's day and the big cool down we will talk about in a bit. 6:30 with angela talking about

traffic. >> reporter: all right. on the roads right now a nice ride for most of you out there. especially getting through the city. on 895 and 95, both are good to go as you approach the tunnels and the toll plazas. we have still look pretty good for those of you traveling in howard county. northbound on 29 making are way to i-70. and once you get toi.-70 it's clear all the way to 695. here's a live look at i-95. as you can see, we are still slobbing pretty -- be looking pretty good on 95 in the white marsh area as with most of the major roadways. following a story about a 4th grader who reportedly created a kill list targeting fellow students. it took place at deal elementary school in anne arundel county about half an hour south of annapolis. corinne redman is standing by with more on the developing story. >> reporter: well, many parents say they received a startling phone call on tuesday from school administrators at deal elementary school saying their children's name were on a hit listen titled kill list. the 4th grade here made the

list erased the title and changed it to people mean to me. the list included 35 classmatesat deal and celebrity names like justin bieber. only parents of the students on the list were notified by the school. but some parents say that was not enough as school officials should have notified everyone. girl's troupe leader says she is good and loves to learn but has been bullied at times and some parents think the child should be removed from school. and others are offering support. >> this child told my boy she had a killing list and that they were on it. >> the first instinct is to attack and i don't think that is the right thing to do. >> i wish they would a have notified everyone because i know a lot of parents weren't happy finding out from the newspaper. >> now the school has suspend the student and there's no word on if any further action will be taken. corinne redman, abc2 news. news around the nation, a sink hole caused a broken water main and forced many people out of their homes in pennsylvania.

homeowners in allentown woke up with the basements to find them full of water. the emergency crews discovered a sink hole across the street estimated 10 feet deep. area was evacuated and blocked off while crews went in to turn things off they heard some of the houses beginning to shift. a daring rescue in los angeles. firefighters say a hiker and his dog slid 150 feet off a trail. rescuers propelled down the side of a hill and hooked the man into a harness. the dog was strapped in by another rescuer. both lifted to safety. dog and hiker are reportedly doing well this morning. a man is free from the burning car by police and then arrested and after. that is look at the flames that took place in grand rapids michigan. allen blake accidentally rested his foot on the gas pedal while drunk and passed out. the engine raced and caught fire. after the rescue he was arrested and is charged with operating under the influence. and a visitor at los angeles zoo hopped a fence while other barriers to get

closer to the elephants and got close enough to pet them. horrified onlookers yelled at her telling her to get away. witnesses say she was an elephant sanctuary for five minutes before leaving and police took the woman in custody and took a hospital for a mental evaluation. maybe you have ideas for the new year's party and want to impress your guests. how about opening a champagne bottle like a pro. and doing it with a sword. drunks with sharp objects. it's pretty easy. >> the vertical seam where it goes around the bottle where it has glass lip is where the weakest point of the bottle s tap it and it goes flying so ready to do this? one, two, three. >> you don't need a sword use a strong knife but be careful of the blade and any glass that may be broken after it falls on the floor. well when the future and

baby bump and shared sacrifice the phrases michigan lake superior state university selected for 2012 annual list of words banished from the english for misuse overuse and general uselessness. the 37th annual list released today includes amazing, baby bump, shared sacrifice, occupy, and blow back. man cave, and jay normous and the new normal. lake superior state university solicited people online to nominate the terms. are the words you are sick of or tired of hearing or you've been using them too much. head to the facebook fan page and let us know what you think. overused words of 2011. news time 6:35. and make them and break them is the theme for the new year's eve revelers who promise to weigh in with a new year. how you use your smart phone to help you with the resolutions. and if you ring in the new year with a few adult beverages, new year's day could be spent in bed. foods that could help you prevent and the remedy for the

holiday hangover. you are watching "good morning maryland" first and only at 4:30 and we return in just a moment.

now "good morning maryland." welcome back. it's that time year again time for resolutions. now if you want to actually meet your goal this year, you are smart phone could be a big help. an app called resolution 2012 lets users choose goals identified habits they need to change to meet and track progress weight loss is a popular resolution each year and the daily burn app for the iphone manages workout and calorie counts. the weight loss app for android gives day by day tips on eating, working out and slimming down. the my quit app is one for

those who want to quit smoking presenting daily guidelines for quitting gradually and helping to go cold turkey. it may help you give a bike kick to stop smoking and tallies how much money you save since putting down the last significant rit. it's fun to party and watch the ball drop on new year's eve but if you are down for the count on new year's day because you drank too much there's food that you can eat may help you handle a hangover. road to recovery begins with hydrating and rebuilding your electrolytes. >> i always recommend having soup as an option for any soup you like. but what we are talk about is fluid and plenty of salt. >> you can down a sports drink before you go to bed or as soon as you get up you can help replace some of the electrolytes. you may want to try eating fruit, the fructose could help the alcohol get out of your system faster. now if you are stomach is uneasy some say try a ginger bread cookie. coming, it will cost more when you pay verizon bills.

the proposed fees to tax on extra cash on your statement. and driving through new jersey and the new year it will cost a bit more. how much more you can be paying at turnpike. and a new law in memory of caylee anthony. how the death and disappearance could save hundreds of lives in the future. 6:41. who's going out of town for the game 4:15 kick off and you know what, their arctic blast comes in a day earlier than us. temperatures sliding to the mid and lower 30s. windy and cold wear chance of rain or snow shower and colder throughout the game. that could be a factor. what about our weekend weather. an inch in the start of 2012. we will talk about that. angela. >> reporter: on the roads right now starting to see ion crease of traffic volume on the west side of the beltway. also getting reports of icy conditions in some areas. we will have a complete update of your friday morning commute coming up.

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and good morning. i am charley crowson time for your abc2 news to go. we begin with meteorologist

justin berk. >> look at the cams i will show you in a couple minute how beautiful the sunrise is beginning to shape up in annapolis and many of us will have a pretty sunrise. 32 in easton and 23 flip the numbers around in york, p.a. and back into the 30s into mountains as warm air comes that. few bands of clouds that may have struck your sunrise view back to the west but we expect more clouds out of this system turning mostly rain through the northern well the western great lakes and on into the northern midwest states. we are expecting clouds to increase and although we will be near 30, sunrise clouding skies this afternoon will bring milder temperatures up to 52. let's get a look at that traffic once again here's angela. >> reporter: on the roads especially in we69 minister -- westminster getting reports of icy spots. be prepared heading out this morning. otherwise we are very light in volume for the most part getting another live look at traffic flow on i-9 5. still a good ride from the jessup columbia area northbound to 695. and traveling on the beltway here's 659 at wilkins avenue.

-- 695 at wilkins avenue. the drive from pikesville around through catonsville to 9h i-95. back to you. local doctors have been charged with murder for performing late term abortions. doctors worked worked as offices throughout maryland. linda so is standing by with details. >> reporter: details are outlined in the charging documents. police say the doctors performed abortion on women almost full term. stephen bringham and nicolea riley are charged with murder because of what police are calling botched abortions. a third doctor george shepherd has been implicated in the case. his license has been suspended. according to the documents, the late term abortion were performed at facility in elkton cecil county. the office is called american women's services and locate on east high street. when police search the place last august they found a chest in the freezer containing 35 late term fetuses. they found logs of other late

term abortion sopping babies 20 tweaks, 28, 33 and 35 weeks along. the dr. bringham has never been licensed to practice medicine in maryland but rant facility and had offices in baltimore, frederick and college park and elkton. you can read more about this case on the website at abc2news.com. if you go to the main page it's the first story in the slide show. clicking on that and scroll down a bit we have a link to the full charging documents. you can read details posted there. again, in the charging documents also outlined how the doctors performed an aborption on a -- abortion op a woman so late term it was botched and she ended up having to have emergency surgery at johns hopkins. linda so, abc2 news. and new this morning, there's going to be a maryland general assembly considering a bill to require guardians to notify police about dead or missing children. it is called caylee's law in member rif caylee act in who died in 2008. her mother didn't report her

disappearance for a month. now the bill would make it a felony not to report a child's death within two hours. missing children under 13 would have been reported within 24 hours. children older than 13 need to be reported within 48 hours. a man accused of murderrering a the-year-old girl he was -- murdering a 9- year-old girl he was baby- sitting will be in court. mike plumadore is charged with the murder. the girl attended school in hagerstown. the school is offering counselor for students who may have known her. 1978 is the last time we sniffed the idea of a murder rate below 200 in baltimore city. we are in 2011 and the city has a very good chance of marking the 33 year low again in homicides. abc2 news corinne redman is here with new reaction from the man who leads the police department. >> reporter: well, it was a sound bite we stared to hear bad guys with guns. the commissioner made that the

focus of the police administration and is proud to say it is work. baltimore has 196 murders so far this year and if the number holds true it will be the first time in a generation charm city has seen a number like it. it is the department's focus on getting illegal guns off the street and programs around it for the downward trend in crime. while the homicide rate for 2011 is proof of the hard work he he and the cops put into the job, there's plenty more work to do. >> the fact we are making a difference is an enormous amount of pride to us. but, we are we satisfied with that and if i said yes, the mayor should yank me out of the store. we can't be satisfied i can't be satisfied we had one murder last year. we have a long way to go. >> reporter: age coup up throughout the day, -- and coming up throughout the day, we will have much more on the interview including what he has

in store for 2012 to keep the crime numbers dropping. time for consumer news. and sears announced locations that they will close due to financial struggles. florida was the hardest hit losing 11 stores. in ellicott city the sears is slated to close. the projected closings reaps 3% of overall sears stores. we can get a glimpse of ael a newest ipads as early as next month. the company is expected tounveil two versions next to late january. the ipad 2 will lower the price to compete with the kindle fire tablet. what sets the new ipads apart is a camera one has a 5 mega pixal ants other has a 8. amazon calls the kindle the mostsuccessful product ever. 2011 was the safest for airline passengers. commercial aviation experienced just one passenger death for every 7.1 million travelers worldwide.

the previous record was set in 2004 with 1 death per 6.4 million passengers. if you plan to go out for the new year baltimore city wants you to get home safe. tipsy taxi service from yellow cab will be out and about to get you home safe for the new year. the service is offered to anyone old aer than 21 from mid -- older than 21 from midnight to 4 in the morning. they will only take guests from a bar to the home. it's available in the baltimore city limit and under $50. those wishing to call can call 877-963-taxi. the ball will drop and confetti falls by midnight and people in times square got an early taste of the weekend's new year's eve celebration. organizers threw handfuls of confetti from 8 stores stories above broadway as onlookers watched from the street. they test the air worthiness of the confetti. oneton of the paper will be released on midnight. that's on new year's eve. metro will be running extra afternoon trains helping

computers to leave early in advance of a long holiday weekend. they will add additional trains this afternoon to accommodate customers and metro will open for the normal hours on saturday new year's eve and sunday for new year's day. time for five things to know on this friday morning. new york mayor bloomberg says the work on the 9/11 memorial museum has ground to a halt because of a money dispute. he says there's no chance it will open on time. it was scheduled to open next september on the 11th anniversary of the attack. verizon wireless the largest cell phone company will begin charging $2 for a convenience fee for payment made over the phone or online through the credit card. the fee will not apply to electronic check payments or automatic credit card payment set up through the company's auto pay system. and new california laws set to go in effect in january man dates proper recovery from athletes with head injuries. under the law public high school or younger sports for

teams must suspend athletes until clearance is given by a health provider. garden state beginning next year tolls on new jersey turnpike and the garden state parkway will you go up by 50%. that goes into effect on new year's day. millions more will ring in 2012 with a new year than last year. u.s. census bureau estimates the population will hit nearly 313 million people on new year's day. that's up nearly 1% from a year ago. it's purple friday and ravens are gearing up to take on the bengals for the final week of the nfl regular season. a lot is at stake a must win for cincinnati and if they win, they get in the playoffs. ravens win, and they will play for home field advantage and a first week bye. ravens take on bengals in cincinnati kick off sunday at 4:15. every january #st it falls on a different day but what if it didn't. two professors at jobs hopkins -- johns hopkins propose a permanent calendar each 12

month period is the same as the year before. the new year march june, september and december would have 31 days and all the rest would have 30. christmas would always fall on a sunday and halloween october 30th and always fall on monday. and they say this is an effort to save money because we spend many of our hours and millions of dollars calculating on what i did a certain week would fall for future reference. justin. >> if your birthday is always on tuesday you might not be happy. >> how confusing shah. >> are you kidding me? how about the people proud to be born on a leap day. that 29th is eradicateed. anyway let's do weather. how about this sunrise shot from the naval academy. i believe we will have a beautiful sun is rise. there's the time-lapse view. look over the severn. get your cameras ready. i want to see the photos because it should be a pretty one of the clouds rollback in 35 annapolis by the water. and centerville 28 in columbia and 26 in woodbine and white snow across the northern tier as the system came through

yesterday building through the north. there's snow across the upstate of new york and the next system producing snow in -- i am sorry rain in ohio. the snow is back towards wisconsin and minnesota and that will swirl there. that's going to help lift the jet stream up to the north. what happened in the mild weather if anything does fall out of the clouds it would be rain drops but we should go from partly cloudy to overcast. and it will be a warmer day. in fact holding the temperatures up overnight so if anything fall overnight or tomorrow morning they would be rain drops and leading through the day tomorrow we should see at least a disburgs of the cloud and heading into new year's day itself, we are in pretty good shape. heading outside for the well the drop of the ball in new york or for any sort of fireworks around town new year's should be fine around here. as fine as they can be this time of the year. weather wise. 52 today. and clouds moving back in tonight and maybe a sprinkle towards daybreak and we are back to 40. here's weekend outlook and we should be mostly dry. we are expecting the afternoon temperatures in the 50s and 55

on new year's day by the way. with sun early on it could hurt your eyes after the overnight party but the afternoon of course as charlie talked about will watch the ravens game. cincinnati could have snow showers and falling temperatures but we will be 5 5 and we get the showers and dropping into the 30s early next week. angela. >> reporter: on the road not a lot of congestion but traveling in fallston you may see an accident. police at 152 and hess road but the major roads for the most part still in great shape as you make your drive this morning especially on i-95. north and southbound lanes looking very nicely here as you pass 175 and here's a look at the beltway. look at the west side. look how clear it is at liberty road. we don't get a chance to see that for this time of morning. we are in good shape. >> good shape on this friday. >> good shape. we are asking you what are your new year's resolutions. we are at facebook the official wmar facebook fan page your thoughts and plans for the new year. that's it fours. see -- the next time you see us

it will be 2012. have a great new year. see you. >> happy new year. >> happy new year to you.

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