>> that's what's making news in america this morning. stay with us for "gma" gam. live coverage from manchester new hampshire as we get ready for the gop primary. i'm charley crowson. let's get a check of the weather and traffic. we start with justin berk. we had ourselves snow yesterday. if you were watching, it wasn't a surprise, watched the snow build in, enough to cover some of the areas but not much ice, 34 pasadena. let's check on the road conditions with angela. >> no reports of accidents so far this morning. lane closed 395 in to the city that should be open in pominutes. looking good on 29, no delays to report at this time. let's head to manchester

new hampshire from tj winnick as we are getting ready for the new hampshire primary. mitt romney has a double digit lead. will that hold up? let's go to tj with a live report from new hampshire. [no audio] [technical difficulties] [no audio] >> reporter: good morning. it is primary day here in new hampshire. the only surprise might be who will finish second to mitt romney? the votes are in. the tiny new hampshire village refound in for casting the ballots. huntsman and romney tied with two votes a piece. >> i'm very happy. >> reporter: the former massachusetts governor leads in one poll by 24 points. just yesterday, made a biggest

slip on the campaign trail. like being able to fire people that provide services to me. >> reporter: he was trying to make a case that people like to pick their own health insurance. >> governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. >> reporter: in the multimillionaire front runner uttereded this line. >> reporter: this was rick perry monday in south carolina. >> i have no doubt that mitt romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough to hand out. >> reporter: enjoying firing people is how the obama team was planning to portray romney. the strategist calling romney's words a rare moment of candor. romney. cas rear is a venture capitalist is the target of more than $3 million in ads,

paid for by newt gingrich's wealthiest supporters. romney says his company created 100,000 jobs a net gain, when asked how many jobs his company slashed, his campaign refused to answer. tj winnick, abc news, back to you. deadly house fire, closer to home, essex, claiming the lives of two women. linda so has new information on the fatal fire. she join us live now. >> reporter: we got off the phone with the fire investigator. the women are mother and daughter. their names haven't been released. we did a search and shows the home belongs to a woman named carol. it broke out on arn cliff road. the women were upstairs, one was rushed to frank lynn square, the other to bay view, both did not make it.

>> they pulled one lady out, she was kind of like, she looked in bad shape. they brought somebody else out, they were breaking all the windows and there was a lot of smoke. >> firefighters say they had a hard time getting in the house because of so much clutter. the cause of the fire is under investigation. what neighbors say happened to the women earlier in the day that had them in the hospital. howard county, a mother has been charged abusing her child before he was killed. the charges come nearly a year after 2-year-old elijah was killed in a separate incident. he died from asphyxiation in april. no one has been charged. utah doctor who performed a botched late term abortions will be heading to maryland to face murder charges. police began investigating riley and dr. steven in august 2010 after a botched surgery at

his clinic. nicole waived extradition on monday after a judge denied a request for bail. no word yet on when riley will be brought back to maryland. many of you may reck ing recognize this man. this -- he was arrested in florida on warrants related to paving schemes there. he paved a driveway for a 29- year-old woman without her permission and went to her bank to get $8500 for the payment. the state's attorney plans to have him extradited to maryland. florida may want to try him first. big game is less than a week away. players and fans are getting ramped up in baltimore. with the painted streets in purple all over the area, covering the darkness what does harbaugh have to say? kuren redmond has a preview of what we can expect.

>> reporter: the ravens ground crew will be all over spreading the purple pride. the first stop is at the best western in westminster and patriot plaza where the teams logo will be painted. all on hand to celebrate and hand out give aways to the fans who attend and starting at midnight, painting the words relentless. ravens coach harbaugh says the team is healthy and ready to take on the houston texans sunday. they are more than hopeful for a big win. >> we look good. anticipate everybody playing in the game.

concussion guys haven't been cleared yet. we anticipate them being cleared tomorrow. >> if you want to go crazy and spread the pride on your lawn, fans can purchase through the store on their website. >> stay with abc2 news on sunday before the game as we have everything you need to know leading up to kickoff. it's the way to indy special at 9:00 a.m., join jamie costello, whyet as we get you ready. they got almost 20 inches of snow and more on the way. coming up how residents in one small alaskaian town are preparing for a record breaking snow.

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alaska is being buried by the blizzard of 2012. they've had snow everyday since december 17th. that is 175 inches of snow in 24 days. 20 feet. more is expected as another system expected to come through today. there is no way of getting in and out by road, or by sea, we have a live look outside here. we are nowhere close to weather like that in alaska. we saw flakes as justin berk

predicted. this was the snow in east baltimore monday evening. you wouldn't have known it. it was rain soaked street. we got the white stuff. time to check this with justin. it happened before dinner time. >> i was looking at the old graphics that said wet roads and stickage on the grass during the even eve hours. if you can stick around, i'm trying to sort through and see if i can put them on display. basically it was around annapolis and southbound, south of 50 eastern shore. claim near the dc area. it doesn't look like we have too many icy problems. clear skies, snow free, in the 20s, york and hagerstown. some clouds, patchy fog, also with the snow on to delmarva. another day until we get to that. hour by hour forecast, we will

see sun developing. looking for a high temperature of 52, mild day on tap. good morning everyone. as we get ready to head out our cecil county motorists, be aware we have a right lane closed on the titus bridge southbound. that should be wrapping up as we get closer to the 5:00 hour. no reported trouble spots as you make the drive on 29, calm with the usual early light volume. northwest side, all lanes open and clear at green spring this hour. downtown, no reported trouble spots as well. follow us on twitter this morning at maryland traffic. one school goes the distance when it comes to a food drive. >> reporter: i'm sherrie johnson, live in lit come --

. 34 degrees, u.s. department of transportation announced it will spend more than 1.5 billion dollars to reimburse for repairing roadways. maryland will received 7.5 million dollars following tropical storm lee. 2011 was a record breaking year for the port of baltimore. a quarter of a million people sailed on cruises, estimated around $90 million. hostess preparing to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy. it could happen this week. the company is facing high labor cost and rising cost of

ingredients. we could learn in a few weeks whether accused shooter laughner is competent to stand trial. a judge ordered the doctor to have his report ready by january 25th. actor and tv host, cannon, is out of the hospital after treated for minor kidney failure. cannon expected to be at work next week. a crime that sickens the community. an 84-year-old woman was stabbed to death and her body was found in her burning home. detectives are hoping the community will help find her killer. mary hines home caught fire last thursday. detectives said she was stabbed multiple times and the fire may have been set to hide the killing. >> the fire complicates the case and adds a hurdle we will have to overcome in the investigation. >> policemen handing out fliers to neighbors trying to find

answers. neighbors say she was caring and is in shock that someone could possibly hurt her. murder investigation 4.5 years old is making headlines after an arrest is made. william mc donald is arrested for shooting benjamin curtis in the head in august of 2006. police in new jersey said they found the gun used in the murder a month after the shooting but there was no link to a suspect until now. prosecutors will only say they got new information last year and that was corroborated with cell phone records from the night of the shooting. education alert for you, teachers are taking a food drive seriously. camping out until they reach their goal. how much food they are hoping to collect. let's check in with sherrie johnson, live in len dale with the teachers. >> reporter: we are here in lithicum. they are camped out in an effort to collect donations for

the needy. their goal, they are trying to go 7800 pounds. at the rate they are going, they can get there. right now i have bob mosier with me. good morning, bob. what is going on here? >> this is part of a great effort for a second year by the community collaboration team to help the needy. 7800 pounds of food last year, they are hoping to raise 10,000 for the arundel county food bank. >> they got their tents and sleeping bags, a group of them , there are teachers over there. they are sitting out waiting for your donations. why is this so important? >> schools are a big part of the community. we are fortunate to have great relationships with business partners, this effort part of the community collaboration

team effort -- [technical difficulties] -- we work closely with the partners. >> we are having audio difficulty there is with sherrie johnson. we will check in with her in a little bit. governor martin o'malley scheduled to make afoundsment about funding today. the governor will join the house speaker and officials ó9g other elected to officials making the announce. scheduled for 10:30 at german town elementary. kids will have a new baseball field soon. aberdeen city council announced they will build a new ballpark. coming up on february 10th, the foundation will hold the gala honoring former raven, oj.

search team rescued three men from a cave in west virginia. the men didn't return sunday night. crews went looking for them. they seemed to be okay. experts were involved in the search. how far is far? tsa defending decision to con fi kate a cupcake from a woman flying to las vegas. it was packed in a jar filled with icing, considered a jell under traveling policy. the passenger was barred from taking the cupcake on the plane when the icing exceeded the amount of gel allowed in carry on luggage. that is the tsa. hello to meteorologist, justin berk. still trying to work on the pictures. there is snowfall reports across the region. point 4 inches at bwi. under an inch in annapolis.

the snowfall slicing the state in half. 34, that's important here in baltimore, even with the snowfall, temperatures above freezing. we should not have too many icy spots. roads have been treated. there maybe a spot or two to be concerned with and always bridges and overpasses. 36 ocean city. they had snow yesterday. richmond between rich richmond and dc, heavy snow. once the system exits off the coast, residual fog. it's interesting. that's where we have mid level clouds, low level clouds and fog. these are the places with the snow yesterday. northside of baltimore and beyond nothing but around the beltway, i-70 southbound, some left on the grass this morning. that will melt away in a hurry.

there is our next storm. we talked about tornados in texas near houston. snow wrapping around the backside. that's our low pressure in to the gulf of mexico moisture. that's going to flow stuff in our direction. not a lot of cold air, trapped in eastern canada. we will tap in to it as the rain spreads our way. midday tomorrow , the clouds roll in. we go down hill, rain could arrive by the evening commute or beyond. heavy rain tomorrow. rumbles of thunder thursday morning. our future model indicating how much precipitation we can get here and if we can get this, we are expecting close to an inch of rain, maybe higher amounts. this is ending by thursday morning. we turn sharply colder on the backside. today looking for temperatures in the 50s. i think we got something wrong with the clicker. it's correct down there. 52 we are expecting.

tonight temperatures not the icy spots, something up with our computer. we are looking at the proper 7 day outlook. 52 today. 47 tomorrow. late rain tomorrow through thursday. 56 thursday afternoon. rain-snow mix, colder air friday in to the weekend. it is 4:53. let's go to the roads and hopefully the numbers are right. as you mentioned justin, any time we have precipitation there is a possibility of icy spots especially on bridges and overpasses. we are checking the roadways. if you are coming in on bw, looking good northbound as well as i-95, your northbound and southbound lanes moving at a good pace. 95 north, traffic on 95, white marsh boulevard, all is clear from bel air southbound on 95, all the way to 695. lives have been shaken

forever. what some are saying caused a massive fire and kept it burning longer. details coming up this morning. also scandal caused the head of the swiss national bank to shutdown. who could be responsible.

massive fire sweeping through western peru. the fire started in a kitchen of one of the homes yesterday in a camp and quickly spread. what made matters worse are gas canisters throughout the village began exploding and spread the fire further and faster. a short circuit could have

ignited the blaze. it destroyed 250 homes and injured several people. police recovered 13 bodies dumped at patrol station sunday in mexico. there were threatening messages left but they would not give the details of the content of the messages, the town is the base of the drug cartel specializing in smuggling, extortion and other crimes. head of swiss national bank stepped down. he was at the center of alleged insider trading scandal. his wife made a huge currency purchase at a time when the bank was trying to protect the swiss frank. emails leaked to the press and suggested hilda brand new about the tran action. countdown for the olympics has gun. a cabinet meeting was held. the projects are complete. it's a matter of fitting out the 9 arenas.

9million pieces are needed. new details this morning in the deadly house fire that killed two women in essex. why neighbors say the women were in the hospital before the fire broke out. that is rick santorum, he is assured he will win the nomination for the president. getting in on the purple pride, ravens gearing up for the big game sunday but not before painting the town purple and the one word spread across the state beginning today. it is tuesday, january 10th, good morning maryland, i'm charley crowson. we are decked out in our purple. it's a week's worth getting

ready for the playoff game. kickoff set for 1:00. let's check in with meteorologist, justin berk. >> good morning, 4:58, let's go back in time. you barely saw flakes knot of baltimore. south a brief burst. annapolis snowed a good chunk of the afternoon. reduced visibility. we got to it stick to the docks. annapolis, harbor school, see how it started to stick during the afternoon in the landscaping , the roads were wet. not an issue with traveling. it was south. annapolis and pasadena, above freezing at 33. 32 rock hall. below freezing here, dry on the north side. cloudiness and fog to deal with. overall, that's where we can see where the gray shading is. this is where it's lined up. we got a little bit of fog or low clouds to deal with. we go from mid-30s, 7:26 sunrise. afternoon brings us