. a local couldn'ty government made after offer of early retirement to employees. how they responded what the county plans to do. a dead body and the british royal family. to close to comfort for the royal family. and first, look at this live look from the rush hour looking

at 95 and 175, temperatures below freezing. its been freezing cold outside today. let's find how long this frigid air is going to last, wyatt for a look at the forecast. >> reporter: temperatures beginning to drop more. we haven't had the wind chill factor. 20s, north and west and northeast of the city. we will head in to the 20s and look at the lows earlier today. teens and single digits out there across the central part of maryland. also tracking this, a cluster of snow showers across west virginia and will skirt the south received our state. we could see a few flurries in here later this evening and they could make things slick. drive with caution, cold, 20s

with flurries, we will talk about how things warm up quite a bit coming up. >> thank you. if you want to know what the weather has in store you can check out the all new i-pad app featuring the most accurate weather team. like traffic cameras and new navigation there on the i-pad. it's available on i-tunes. other news, to try to down size their work force baltimore county government has offered some new terms for early retirement. jamie has more on the effort and the response from people. >> reporter: it was pretty good. that's right. they said since the offer was made they have gotten 670 applications though each still has to be looked at. the goal was to find 200 who would be willing to take early retirement and whose positions

could eliminated or filled by others. >> we are confident that the program has worked, that it'll let us down size the government, it'll let us as i said to do what families all across this nation are doing. >> reporter: now though they were mapping to get about 200 to take the offer they are considering eliminating more positions based on the number of people who have applied. some like police officers and firefighters who didn't have a high enough rank were not allowed to apply. >> thank you. other news, plans are moving forward to build a new $7.2 million mansion on the university of maryland park campus. the board voted to tear down the president's residence, first built in 1956 and put up a new building. the comptroller voted against the plan because of already existing budget issues facing the university. take a look at top stories, video shows a bystander

attacking police. the officers tried to arrest another man. according to the police it happened on new year's in east baltimore. the man was arrested and taken to the hospital. thor was treated for minor injuries. hartford county sheriff investigating an armed robbery involving a man they say is a united states marine and a suspect. they say four men including the marine set for deployment when -- two people forced them to take off their clothes. lots of people got new smart phone was tablets. enter tablets. you should start improving your passwords and try to keep one the privacy policies. a murder mystery of royal for approximations, a woman found dumped on the queen's

estate. we have the latest. >> reporter: on tv mysteries are solved in minutes. in real life it's nowhere near that easy. so days after the body of a young woman was found on the queen's estate authorities say they have not yet confirmed her identity. wednesday they announced samples taken in the body didn't provide a dna profile. all they can say is that the victim was a young, white adult female between the age of 15 and 23. while she was not stabbed or shot. >> suspect she has been murdered. >> associate and -- not round here. >> reporter: the find has gripped the locals. >> bit of a mystery. >> yeah. >> reporter: as for the royal family. >> they are still here. they aren't going home until

the 14th of january. >> reporter: that the usually quiet estate is now a crime scene is also quite the surprise considering it's not exactly the most private of places. >> this is littered foot paths, a lot of the houses around here -- are owned by the royal estate, there are tenants, state workers. extraordinary place, for someone to decide to dump a body because this place is also crawling with police, most of the year because of its connections. >> reporter: currently crawling investigators. an exbanded search of the area around the site will continue over the next few days. abc news. >> german officials say the than police custody in los angeles for arson is also being investigated there. it's believed the man who made his first court appearance today is responsible for the worst arson spree in los angeles history. authorities in california say he set the fires because his mother was facing deportation.

in germany its thought he set fire to his home there just days before he traveled to the united states. and police in new york say the man they have in custody confessed yesterday to the five fire bombings. nobody was hurt in any of at tacks but police believe the locations including an islamic center and a temple were all targeted. deputy police commissioner said the suspect had an issue with someone at each of the locations that was attacked. 123450 lots of conspiracy they'rists are predicting the end of the world this year. why the skies in one town look like it may becoming and what's really behind it. and what do you do when you combine bees and -- the florida family. how they dealt with their terrifying house guest.

. hundred, of black turkey vultures invaded a georgia neighborhood and most of the neighbors aren't happy about it. they say the birds are destroying the area and leaving droppings everywhere. one man counted five to six hundred of them. the neighbors say she called

the department of natural resources and isn't getting them anywhere. they were told the birds are a protected species. in florida a smaller but still dangerous invasion of bees in one home. talking 60,000 of them. family living there found them and then evacuated the house. nobody was stuck but though they were taken out there is -- a messy sticky situation. finally place where college student dear sir s can put their skills to work, facing off trying to throw ping-pong balls in toecaps filled with beer. tournaments happening ha in las vegas and the owner takes home $50,000. the pool of candidates is smaller. just 24 hours after the iowa

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. an app meant to them people by giving them a place to air deepest secrets anonymously has been shut down. a man named frank warren came up with the idea. firster started a blog but it got to popular he decided to create an app. with the popularity more people started getting aware of it and some started making fun of the secrets and even posting graphic pictures. >> people were sharing around the world 40 to 50,000 secrets every day. >> it got to bad he decided he

no choice but to stop the bullies, but the only way was just to shut down the app. he said he hopes this won't be the end of the secret app for good. >> now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> all right let's check out the radar right now. we are seeing a little bit of activity and again not much but enough to make things slick on some of the roads well west of the area. garret getting a flurry action. this is a main cluster of snow, heading hard harris son bug and fredricksburg. there is another cluster of very light snow here, just north of baltimore county. this is tracking just south so we could get another burst of snow in here in a similar spot to where we had this last night. northern baltimore, hartford.

keep that in mind if you are traveling north later tonight because the roads are still frozen and anything that thaws can give you the light layer of black ice. 30, winds southwest at five. we are below freezing and bright periods but clouds held tough most of the afternoon. frost bug a snow socked campus out in cumberland. then winter green virginia, snow guns firing the skiers and snow boarders having a good time. the cold air is here. will not last. we are just below freezing still but wind's have shifted southerly. they are much lighter and our highs today, though barely at freezing, these will add about eight, ten degrees tomorrow. will push us up above 40

degrees. 40 or so in pikesville and 41dundock so a mix of sun and clouds but improved day weather wise. 42, the average high for this part of early january. now there is that cluster of snow mainly to the west. upper air wave, short wave disturbance. that could spark -- some snow showers across even central maryland. just for a few hours but it could make it slick in spots for a few hours hours and the pattern showering the art irk high. we will continue to see it moderate over the next few days, as winds shift out of the south and we see lit until the way of new weather makers, i want to show you how deep this freeze reached. jacksonville florida below freezing. the panhandle of florida in the teens and 20s and we could pay more for the winter crops out of florida, strawberries and oranges because of that freeze. hopefully most of the crops --

crops -- crops, hopefully most of the winter crops made it through. man. thursday, 40, early clouds, better weather thursday night and your seven day forecast again the outlook does get mildler, not florida weather but into the 50s friday and into saturday. >> all right. thank you. in tonight's democracy2012 the caucuses went off last night. we look at the aftermath of iowa and where the candidates go from here. fast and furious 24 hours but it was a long night. >> reporter: a long night for a lot of folks because when we started we had seven candidates now we have six. iowa sent on two front runner was a difference of only eight votes between them. >> governor mitt rome --.

romney won. >> thank you iowa for the great sendoff. >> reporter: but santorum almost first place gives him momentum into new hampshire in south carolina. >> game on. thank you very much. >> reporter: ron paul finished third but it wasn't so kind to other hopefuls. they all got less than 30% of the vote combined. after her disappointing 6th place showing bachmann is suspending her campaign. >> as of last night the people of iowa spoke with a very clear voice and so i have decided to stand aside. >> reporter: with her out of the race this is now the republican field. it looks for a while as if it would be down even one more. rick perry came in 5th in iowa and said he would go back to texas, reassess, he did overnight he said he is still in this, headed next to south

carolina. >> mitt romney picking up some support from a former rival. >> reporter: he is going into new hampshire where he has -- morin vested there. his polls he has been so strong but is he hoping to -- buffer that perhaps and build it up with some endorsement, especially one today from john mccain. >> i'm really here for one reason and one reason only. that is to make sure that we make mitt romney the next president of the united states of america and new hampshire and new hampshire is the state that will send him onto victory in a very short period of time. >> reporter: mccain knows new hampshire well. four years ago he beat romney there if you remember, romney actually endorsed mccain after that defeat. you see today turn around in events. >> thank you. thank you. now that the new year has started the naacp focusing on

the elections. they are focusing on getting more registered and getting them to turn out in november but a different kind of approach. gone are the days of the picket lines and sit ins. >> we still need the faith based, the church, the minister, the clergy and everybody to step up to the plate and say we remember history, we know our future and we need the young people to understand the reason why they need to get out and vote because that's what makes a community whole. >> they plan to meet their goal this year by using the martin luther king junior holiday as a voter registration day. she may not be running for president but nancy jacobs said after her decision to step down as senate majority leader she has a decision about her future and is going to share that tomorrow. stay tuned for that. >> all right. at six, are the preschoolers

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. after a promising start to trading stocks barely moved today. the dow average rose about 21 points, the nasdaq down about a third and the s&p500 up just a quarter. not great. owning a home come was a lot of cost and this year unfortunately one of them is going up. the insurance information institute said insurance companies have experienced some huge losses over the past few years after natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes and even quakes. naturally experts believe that the passing along the losses to us the customers in the form of higher premiums. they have really grown in popularity a new survey of business owners found that they plan to use groupon and living some less this year. more than half said they didn't plan to offer any daily deals in the next six moss. the stock price actually fell after the results of the

survey. the economic down turn has -- duncan doughnut plans to double locations in the united states over the next 20 years. they already have nearly seven thousand stores in the united states. we told you early this week about new carbon emission rules in europe and at least two airlines plan to raise fares. delta is adding six dollars per round trip tickets on any flight to europe. many believe the rules are a step forward for europe. the company that runs the nuclear power plant wants to build a third reactor. what happened today that at least got the plans moving forward. that and more on the news at six which starts right now. . >> now abc 2news at since. >> this wasn't a push and shove match at a bar over a spilled drink. this was an attack on an

officer and police are not going to put up with it. two women and a male caregiver make it out of a fire here in brooklyn park and investigators think hate may be involved. if you think a preschooler is just sitting in front of a computer -- you are wrong. if you are picking them up in howard. let's get to the developing story. out of baltimore where on new year a police officer was attacked. it happened while the officer was arresting another plan, it was caught on camera and as you can imagine it's all over the web now. . >> reporter: an an act of cowardice, that's what police call it. take a look at the 40-year-old suspect as he charges across the street and sucker punches an officer as he is about to make an of the of another man. that second man got away with you the suspect is now charged with assaulting an officer and other crimes. poat -- this all started when