it just across the street from the police department. >> we were fortunate there was knob driving by. one of our patrol sergeants was the first one on the scene. we saw the tree come down and was able to get everything blocked off. detours put into effect immediately. >> for many of those that live in the area surrounding the downed lines, the outage amounted to a brief inconvenience. >> it's been pretty bad all morning and our house has been out for several hours. >> but for businesses just off main street, no electricity meant no service and no profits on a day when they count upon it the most. >> i actually work at mcdaniel college and i came down and found out they were closed. there has been bad wind all night. we could hear it outside. >> they report they only lost

power for about 30 seconds before the generator kicked in. crews restored power to all but 100 customers by mid afternoon. >> 67 people were killed in fires last year in maryland according to a report today. the majority of the victims were 44 and older and 79% of the fires were in homes earlier this week. two women were killed in a fire in their home. it has been a windy and cold day. so cold baltimore city extended the code blue alert through the entire weekend. if you're headed out to the ravens rally or to enjoy baltimore county restaurant week be sure to bundle up. let's check in and see how long this weather is going to last. >> it's another wild swing in our temperatures. it's been mild enough earlier this week or maybe you want to do a little out door dining. winds still howling. that's good after morning showers and morning snow flurries north and west of the

city. we are crystal clear but also quite windy. steady at 22 in baltimore, gusting to 30. wind chill factors down in what feels like teens and 20s. now the actual temperature will float in the low 30s but it will feel like 20s as the winds keep kicking out of the west. much more on your weekend forecast coming up. >> it may be cold outside but things are heating up around the area. getting ready for the big ravens game on sunday.ly net is out there among the action. earlier she was at a store selling ravens stuff and she seems to have that back on. she likes that. it's a good look. icon vinceed her. >> you like that, right? i got it painted on this time because the last one fell off and you know what, if you can't beat them join them. >> that's permanent. >> it's not permanent at least i hope not. but i had sunny p actually had

this painted on me. check out what's going on around us. lots of stuff. people are really enjoying what's going on. suing at the girls here and you know what, it's not just about the guys, look at the girls here supporting. >> sofia. >> drew, chris, mason. >> okay. do you have a favorite player. >> well, i like ray lewis. >> joe flaco. >> i like that as well. let me bring in sunny p once again. we are twins, you like this? so we were talking earlier, business has been so good, tell people where they should come out tonight. >> we have about everything you can think about for ravens stuff. people don't know what they want, try and shop for someone else and think of what their niches are and we have stuff they can relate to. shirts, hoodies, scarfs, we have thousands of things in the

store and thousands of customers a day. a parking lot is not big enough. people across the street, they're happy, we're going to get bigger, bigger and my goodness, that 2000 super bowl thing we have right back there, guess what? you can take that and we can do a 2011 right underneath the 2000. >> i love it. you know what, let's switch hats real quickly, can we do that? i like yours. all right. so look what we have done. we are best friends now. i am loving it. you have to come out. you said there's a dennis rodman purple thing going on. it's awesome here. whatever you want purple, they have it. i think i might keep his hat right now. the kids are involved. you need to come out. the jester hat right there. we have lots of stuff flying off the shelves. an empty shelf over there as well. it's going to be a good time. the party is getting started tonight and it's going to linger as we go into sunday. this is what i want to show

you. bring it in. say awe yeah. >> awe yeah. >> go ravens. >> that's going to be a long weekend of partying around the area. don't forget, we want to see you showing off your purple pride. send the pictures. up load them to the wmar facebook fan page. we want to see them. head to aby 2 news.com/facebook. we are relentless with the ravens coverage. the special is coming up sunday morning. they're going to be broadcasting live from the press box tailgate near the stadium. it's going to be all over the place. get you ready to watch baltimore's first home playoff game in five years on the way to indy starts sunday morning at 9:00. a great show. we want to know you what you are doing on game day. all you have to do is tweet way to indy, pound sign way to

indy. we'll post your tweets on our website and they'll run during that special on tv sunday morning. >> we remember those that spent the night outside of am stores for new iphone, but that is nothing compared with what's going on in china. why those waiting resort to violence and even egged the apple building in bejing. >> it's a once in a lifetime shot. we'll be right back

>> new video from someone on a bus in los angeles that recorded a county sheriff's deputy striking a mentally ill woman. this was taken i a cell phone camera. the deputy was holding the woman's arm. the male deputy was restraining the other arm and hit her with the elbow. he is being investigated in connection with the incident. police arrested the man at the center of a bizarre bank robbery. >> betty davis was just beginning her monday morning. her husband was around the corner at his favorite coffee shop when police say the 59

year old showed up at the door. >> he sat the bomb on my ankle just before we left. that was the last thing he did. at least to the 73 year old thought it was a bomb and he told her he'd detonate it as he drove her to the bank to with draw $10,000. >> i told the man i was forced to come here i had a bock bomb on my ankle and i was getting out. it turns out the bomb was a fake but no one knew at the time. he also had a shotgun he grabbed from the couple's home. he also knew him from the coffee shop. >> one morning i paid for my coffee when he got up and left. >> on monday dean came home in time to see what was happening to his wife and he said bradley duck taped him to a bar stool.

>> i never thought anything until they left. >> police say they tracked down bradley after ms. davis gave them a license plate number she spotted on the way to the bank. >> everybody's okay now. maybe i can get a full night's sleep now. >> police arrested bradley on charges of aggravated burglarly, left, robbery and kidnapping. apart from rattled nerves no one was hurt. >> usually apple products are loved in china but the feeling seems to have turned sour. angry crowds became violent even egging the store front. apple is going to stop selling it for the time being to protect employees and customers. >> you don't see this every day and you might find it disturbing. an elephant gave birth to a female calf in front of ain't sited bests and visitors.

there it is -- there is the mother. the baby was on its feet in a matter of minutes. the ceremony was held for the new elephant which is considered thailand's national symbol. >> north carolina high school basketball game. the player hits a full court shot, full court, look at that. up. with seven tenths of a second left in the game. no time for anything. net and nothing but net. it helped them win that game. amazing. >> we have so in purple fridays, today there's a bit more passion. how busy the ravens cheerleaders have been as they rally the fans for the big game on sunday. >> mitt romney's record is under attack. i'm in washington to tell you

which other candidate is nipping at his heels

it's a purple pep rally. we are arrive. i can't even get it out they're so loud. we are live. and i'm here with a great guy. tell me about the beer you're drinking tonight. >> loose cannon and these boys are going to get all over the field on sunday. we're going to be loose cannons and we're bringing it home. >> let's talk about what's in your glass there brother because i'm almost ready. >> you are ready. this is a local made beer. it's our flag ship beer and it's got a purple label. that's all you need to know. >> well, that's all you need to know.

thanks, we'll see you. >> come on out. we're going to be here until 8:00 bringing the purple on baby. >> it is an extra special purple friday with parties and rallies going on all around town today. >> let's go ravens. >> there you go. the ravens cheerleaders on hand for a big party along with the marching band and mascot. among stops, the malls, at each of these fans they were showing the pride and getting fans a chance to get pumped up for the game and win prizes at some time. >> every purple friday is filled with energy. the last one was count down to

kick you have and that was before the big steelers game september 11th. so we had the same amount of people. the baltimores fans love the ravens and they love their team. so they come out early in the morning and get started. >> no doubt about it. each stop after 15 fans can win tickets to the game on sunday. the last stop is still to come at lucky's tavern. that is at 8:3 0 tonight. >> and let's start off with a look at your game at a forecast, for sunday, a lot colder than most of the games we've had this season. squeaking just below the freezing mark for quick off, 1:00 sunday. some sunshine, maybe even a few passing flurries. it will not make it feel any warmer. tailgaters prepare for sub

freezing temperatures in the morning. all right. at least it won't have the kind of wind we're having out there today. look at this, west at 22, gusting to 30 and higher bringing the wind chill factors down well into the 20s. show you a little bit of the weather through the day today. we had basically a mix of sun and clouds although more sunshine than anything. winds whipping places, savage, as you head down through howard county. at the naval academy, our cameras shaking good in the wind and a good chop out there and how about as you get closer to d.c. and we find a nice sunset but boy frozen scenario tonight as temperatures drop well below freezing. all across maryland and the mid- atlantic. the most powerful radar right now, all scans show clear. that should hold up all weekend. so should this, cold temperatures. right now about as warm as we'll ever get the rest of the weekend. 36 in baltimore. we look for temperatures to climb into the maybe mid to

upper 30s both days this weekend. the warm spot in the state at 40 now. winds from the west, steady at 22, gusting higher and this is going to keep the wind chill pretty brutal through the rest of your friday night. bundle up as you head out there. something that will cut the wind down if you're going to be outside at all and the temperatures running, what feel like 20s and teens now with the wind chill factor. all right. so we know it's cold. tomorrow the winds let up. there will be some sunshine but there will also be clouds mixed in and maybe upper 30s at west. harbor east to federal hill and we're going to carbon copy this into sunday. so of course when you talk about a 1:00 kick off for the ravens you talk about temperatures being colder than the overall daytime high. snow still impacting places like ohio, the great lakes, arctic blast on the entire eastern united states. snows have stayed to the west and north but not the cold air.

our trenches basically, just the mix of sun and clouds tomorrow, less wind but still cold temperatures and into sunday we still see no real warm up, though maybe a little more sunshine late in the afternoon, so maybe we're partly cloudy in the morning and clearing late in the day. overnight tonight, down to 26. it's going to feel like the teens out there with the wind chill factor. tomorrow, 36, partly cloudy and into your forecast overnight tonight we're talking about a frigid one tomorrow night, 22 degrees. making for a cold start sunday for the tailgaters to head out. the afternoon may be 35 or so so we creep above freezing. we warm up monday into tuesday at 52 degrees. but on the whole right now, the weather, the kind of january temperatures that make us want to be a little further south right now. >> thanks, today newt gingrich is using mitt romney's own ad to question the former massachusetts governor's record. we're joined now from washington with this story.

it started in iowa and new hampshire. it hasn't stopped down south, has it. >> it definitely hasn't. the story has been a big one because mitt romney's republican rivals have been attacking him for his name. now he's been fighting back with this new campaign ad. >> mitt romney helped create and ran a company that invested in struggling businesses. he rebuilt old ones creating thousands of jobs, those are the facts. >> you may have noticed the ad said thousands of jobs. >> staples, children's centers, the sports authority, steel dynamics, those four alone added well over 100,000 jobs. >> so we're talking about the differences between thousands of jobs and well over 100,000 jobs. some people might say is there a difference but newt gingrich says there is. listen to what he had to say.

>> are you saying he lying. >> he misstated the facts. the fact is he still is not prepared to use any documents to prove anything. >> here's why things might be getting more nasty on the campaign trail between the two of them. the latest polls out of south carolina show the race is a tight one with romney at 28%. newt gingrich right behind him at 25%. >> yeah, and there's the attacks from gingrich are coming from florida. we south carolina before that. what's up with that part of the strategy. >> newt might be taking notes from romney. romney was in florida yesterday campaigning and now newt gingrich was there today and he had a little bit of a prediction. listen to this. >> with your help, we're going to win the florida primary. we're going to win in south carolina. >> when we win in south carolina we're going to come here and we're going to campaign everywhere and we need

your help to do that. >> the take away from that is that newt gingrich is in this for the long run. many people thought well maybe he might not be. >> it is certainly not over yet. thanks so much. live from washington for your insights there. well, also tonight, laura bush apparently hopes her brother-in- law will think about running for the white house. the former first lady reportedly made the comment during a speech wednesday in florida. the former florida governor has not ruled out a run for the presidency in the future. laura bush says his work on education is proof he would make a good president. >> hello everyone. coming up all brand new at 6:00, getting your hands on a ticket to the big ravens playoff game this weekend. it's not impossible. honestly, it's not, we're working for you with where to look. and plus getting the most out of your gift card for the holidays? make sure you get what you want from wherefore you want. we'll explain that next to

sherriff's office you don't waste your money. those stories and more coming up all new. now a preview of what's ahead on world news at 6:30. >> coming up on world news, oprah who wanted to change the lives of girls in south africa, well, the first class at her school is about to graduate and oprah talks to us tonight on world news

>> markets were lower today. dow jones fell 39 points to close at 12,422. the nasdaq fell 14 points to close at 2711. the s&p 500 fell 6 to close at

1289. >> it's the primetime of the year for sneezes, coughs, you can add a couple of smartphone apps to your register minute. >> it's the season for sneezing as winter weather paves the way for cold and flu. a dose of smartphone apps could make you open up and say ah ha. getting in the door could be a challenge, especially when other flu fighting patients are trying to do the same thing. they tried the cut the wait with the website that lets users search doctors by specialty and insurance and schedule an appointment online. the apes for android, blackberry and iphone take most of the features of the website including reviews of other patients and a place to book and keep track of appointments. not sure 23 if it's a cold or flu?

apps let you sort out your samples. like the fight the flu ap. it also lets users track flu activity nearby and by zip code and search for pharmacies and urgent care. >> no matter how smart your smartphone is, it's not a replacement for professional medical care. so seek help if you need it. >> tonight there could be another airline merger in the works. according to the wall street journal delta is thinking about a take over of america airlines. this is on the heels of the bankruptcy filing last year. but delta is not the only airline thinking about taking over. u.s. airways and a private equity firm are considering bids of their own. could the appeal of video games be waning? video games were down more than a 1 balance dollars last year but the industry did bring in $17 billion on sales in games and coes