trains. be careful out there. listen to the songs later. stay with us for . are's watching the station that works for you, good morning maryland" at 4:30. family was held at gunpoint. the latest on the search for the suspects. an occupy protesters hit the streets of baltimore once again. i am sherrie johnon with more on the proper lem. >> reporter: today marks. [audio not understandable] everything you will need to know. >> tuesday january 17th. good morning. i am charley crowson. hope your day is off to a great start. let's check the forecast because we had rain overnight. here's lynette charles. >> hey, you are right. we had rain overnight and we will have more rain for today. check out the headlines. we will see a foggy tuesday on

hand for us. it's going to be off and on rain, mild temperatures. high near around 54 and then it gets cold and we will see sunshine moving back in across the area. let's start out with maryland's most powerful radar because we can see the heaviest rain coming into d.c. the bands will move in across our area to baltimore and bel air and as we check out what's going on closer to mayo and alleys-- annapolis the easternshore will get in on the wet weather. grab the rein gear. you will need it. now over to angela with traffic. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. on the roads this morning, as you get ready for tuesday morning, we did have the overnight rain. so a lot of puddles. possible slippery conditions can and depending where you are in the outlying areas you may run into icy patches. let's look live at traffic flow. oop early check in with howard county police. u.s. 29 looks good with no early delays or troubles. and cecil county i-95 at

tidings bridge southbound right lane closed with overnight construction. charley, good morning. >> good morning. and new this morning, two, two alarm house fires. first just before midnight owings mills on bridgeton court. dispatchers say no one was-side the house at the time and investigators -- was inside the house at the time and the investigators say the fire destroyed the home. the second fire was an explosion. the fire happened a little before one on little meadow road they were trying to make sure it didn't spread to other homes. no one was injured. continuing coverage on police search for three suspects who broke into a family's home and terrorized a man white family was upstairs and -- while the family was upstairs and heard the whole thing. linda so is here with details on the man's condition. >> reporter: he will need surgery from the burns he got while being tortured. police are look for three suspects. he want to warn you the images you are about to see are hard

to watch. he had to get 7 staples in his head from being whipped with a rifle. his eastern was bender by the iron and both on his palms are so bad he can't feel his hands. the victim says he was home with his fiancee and three kids ages 18, 3 and 19 months when three masked men forced into the glen burnie home on cedar furnace circle. the fiancee and three kids were at gunpoint and the man was tortured for more than an hour. very many says the suspects kept demanding money and whipped and cut and burned him. >> he put the knife on the stove and tried to cut it off. he was trying to slap the finger off and he burned his finger stripe to slap the finger off. >> reporter: the suspects left with the victim's car found a short time later. they took cash, cell phones and lap tops and gaming system. the family installed an alarm and is looking to move. they say they don't know why

they were targeted. linda so, abc2 news. and this morning the trial for lee stevens will continue he is accused of killing corporal a correctional officer at the maryland house of correction. he will show how the jail cell at jessup was easily rigged and a jail cell door will be brought into the courtroom. this begins this morning at nine. the state is seeking the death penalty against lee stevens. police in and a also identified the body of a woman washed on the beach monday in annapolis. tyler cordry's body was found. her body was missing following a sailboat accident in mid december. death pnlt opponents are craft agnew bill to ban the death penalty in maryland but it's unclear if they have the votes. opponents pushed to abolish the measure in maryland during the legislative session. they brought high-profile speakers to annapolis on monday to make the case including kim

davis whose brother troy was executed in georgia last year despite some witnesses recanting their original testimony. also at that rally a man wrongly convicted of raping and murdering a woman in 1948. he was the first person in the country to have his conviction overturned using dna evidence. >> maryland got it wrong and i don't want them to get it wrong. only way to make sure you don't get it wrong is don't do it. >> a strong deterrent to crime and we will see what happens this session. >> two years ago the general assembly passed a by placing stronger limits on cases that could lead to the death penalty. supporters say that's far enough right now. another rally didn't end so peacefully. this is from the occupy baltimore protests going for the eviction of mckeeledan square. with details on that here's sherrie johnson.

>> reporter: well, i just got off the phone with state police and we have new reaction. the occupy movement is back in baltimore speak out against social injustice. protesters gathered in east baltimore to make their voices heard and gathered where a new juvenile jail is being built. the group was there to try to convince the city to stop building the jail and want the money put towards fixing up schools. at some point they climbed the fence into the construction site and started to build a structure. maryland state troopers arrested six of the people fortress passing. -- for trespassing. >> the state is proposing to build a jail for use at 104 million dollars when they presumably don't have any money whatsoever and they could spend that money on schools in serious need of repair rather than jailing the youth. if they spent it on schools, surely the significant enough of youth would not need to be in -- would not go through incarceration. >> reporter: once the

protesters were gone, police moved in and took down the makeshift school and the protesters put away. sherrie johnson. alaskan residents have a long way to go before thawing out. how much snow hit the town and why some are wondering if they are going to be able to get out of homes. also, burger king wants you to have it your way and are thinking about bringing it to youch the man -- you. the plan that could bring the whooper tower door. that's straight ahead -- to your door. that's straight ahead on this tuesday january 17th. house reconvenes today after the winter break. details on that coming up in just a bit.

now "good morning maryland" at 4:30. welcome back. this is known as the snowiest city in alaska, the city of valdez. more than 322 inches of snow on the ground. don't worry we converted the

math about 27 feet. snow is so deep some people are trapped in their homes and if they open the door, the mounds of snowfall packing through. alaskans have half of the winter left to go. and that makes this snowfall in reno, nevada look like nothing when it caused icy roads and dozens of accidents. a trech of i-80 was shut -- stretch of i-80 was shut down so they could clean up the mess. time for a check of the forecast closer to home with lynette. no significant snow here yet. that's a live look at inner harbor where the city is painted purple getting ready for sunday's game. afc title game going on in new england. but we don't want to forecast for boston just yet. let's look at things closer to home. >> you know what i know we are talking about the snow and you want the snow. but you may have to go to alaska. >> i can get all i want there. >> buty know, the snow is going to be in the forecast sometime. it's not this week. so as we look at what's going

on right now, we are dry around baltimore bel air but the rain is pushing in. the heavier rain down to the south washington if your commute takes you that way into waldorf and fred ribs burst and we are -- fredericksburg we are dealing with more rain sliding to the eastern shore around easton. more of the same in cambridge. we got a little break earlier but the rain is moving back in and that will be the scenario as we go through the remainder of the morning. and also this afternoon. we will have the on and off rain throughout the day. temperatures this morning not too bad. around 42 degrees. have the coat and make sure to have your umbrella. let's go over to angela with your traffic. how are the roads this morning. >> reporter: actually, we are getting reports of icy conditions near westminster and dealing with a serious accident. an arundel county police are directing traffic on u.s. 50 near davidsonville at 424. tractor trailer involved with an incident. we have the westbound lanes

shut down. one eastbound lane opened again county police on the scene directing you around the early morning incident. if you are traveling on 95 this morning, taking an exit at 175 east and westbound lanes of 175 moving well for you through the maryland region. also here's a live shot of 50 at sandy point. in addition to the serious accident on 50, we have high wind warnings in effect on the chesapeake bay bridge. charley over to you a popular website will have a new look that's going to be blacked out. the english language version of the site will be blacked out as protest to the antipiracy legislation currently beingconsidered in congress. it will go dark for 24 hours. the legislation is designed to crackdown on sales of pirateed u.s. products overseas. news time is 4:42. he passed away in december of pancreatic cancer. a memorial service planned for today. how to pay respects to the late talk show host ron smith. new results of a gop poll

released after midnight. what happened while you were sleeping after last night's debate? who said what and what may surprise you. you are watching "good morning maryland. we are first and only at 4:30. and a very happy birthday to familiar faces. betty white turned 90 today a mohammad ali is 70, and michelle obama turned 48.

it's 4:45 and five things to know. sick maryland schools labor ward the blue ribbon -- awarded the blue ribbon school awart reck. >> ied for high performance and significant improvement in reading and math. it's maryland by maryland assessments and it will be honored about the the school department of education. a public memorial will be held for ron smith. a long time radio talk show host died of pancreatic cancer in december. service will be at 11 at

coucher college campus. doors open at 10. president obama has a full day as well. he will be meeting with the jobs council this morning followed by king abdullah of jordan and this evening he will honored st. louis cardinals. and for thee days beginning today, 300 foreclosure case will be heard in florida lasting 30 minutes each the judge will clear out all backlogs of foreclosures. it has some in the state upset. and latest apple founder will no longer be getting his action figure. apple and jobs family pressured the toy maker to shelf the idea out of respect. in icon.com has agreed to halt production. jobs died in october from pancreatic cancer. get ahead start and file your taxes e-filing begins today and corinne redman is standing by with a representative from h&r block of tricks to do iteffectively.

>> reporter: we are live outside h&r block in towson. today marks a important day for tax returns because today is the first day the irs will accept e-fileed returns. and this is duane henderson with h&r block. first tell mow what are some of the benefits to e-filing early? >> good morning. this year over 140 million americans will file tacks by using e-file you will get the return much quicker in 8 to 10 days and receive the refund and it's safer and efficient. a easy process. >> reporter: what can people do before emmett-filing and -- filing and how can h&r block help. >> gather your documents now and make sure when you have your document enter the data accurately. h&r block can help you. get your maximum number of credits and deductions and materials organized. h&r block has been doing it for over 50 years and would be happy to a help you this year

worse people are waiting for the w-2 in the mail. is there anyway to get the taxes started sooner before they receive the w-2 form. >> you have to wait until january 30th. and that's when your employers required to mail it out. probably about a week after that, the 4th or 6th you will see the w-2 and you can file your return. but you need your w-2 to file the return initially after about the 15th or so you can probably use the last pay stub but we encourage you to use your w-2. >> reporter: you can give us some questions on the facebook page and he will hopefully answer them for you. for now reporting live, corinne redman, abc2 news. in annapolis local lawmakers and residents are preparing to hear the governor's new budget proposal. the budget will be released wednesday including proposal for roads, rail and airports and the port and bridges to put people back to work. mr. brown spoke to members of labor unions who were rallying

for more jobs. and the oldest senate building in annapolis may be emto at this for a while. the william s james building will be half open. arrested -- a rusted pipe burst leaving two floors flooded. the first two floors will be opened but the third and fourth floor could be closed for a few days. and a new poll out shows mitt romney nationally in the race to win the gop nomination. ab romney hold a 2-1 advantage over the closest competitors with 35% of all republican support. newt gingrich ron paul and ricksantorum is behind. newt gingrich is at 17% with the closest and dropped 13 percentage points in the last month. and in myrtle beach romney was among five remaining candidates who took to the stage. most heated argument was between santorum and romney who

debated over inaccuracies in ads by super pacts. >> there's been so many attacks that they have been outrageous and inaccurate and shown to be inaccurate. that's the nature of the process. >> we have. >> i hope it ends. >> if it's something in the super pact supporting me i would say stop it. that you are representing me and my campaign stop it. >> the debate was hosted by fox newschannel and the wall street journal. it came ahead of the south carolina primary that is scheduled for this coming saturday. news around the nation, a five-year-old boy is in custody accused of stabbing three people. it happened in vurnlg monday afternoon. neighbors -- virginia monday afternoon. the victims were all members of the youngster's family although are expected to be okay. and check out this video a large explosion leveled this town house in new york monday and two firefighters were hurt in the process. the construction crew hit a gas main sending leaking gas into

the home. firefighters knocked on the door moments before it exploded and investigators do not think anyone was inside at the time. the door to door whoop are may be on the -- whooper may be on the menu. burger king has tested home delivery. three stores are doing it in maryland. there's a $2 delivery fee and minimum order varies from 8 to $10. customers must live within 10 minutes of the fast-food stores. well the ravens prepare to head to foxborough, patriots are preparing for us. tom brady called the ravens yesterday the toughest team the patriots will face all season and spoke to weei radio about the game and the pats were back in meetings preparing to face baltimore in the afc title game sunday. here's a fun fact. two years ago the ravens beat patriots 33-14 in a wild card playoff game. that was also in foxborough and here's looking for a repeat of

that history if possible. you thinking of travel to the ravens game sunday, lee lo cal travel agents say you could score a round trip ticket to boston two night stay and ticket to the game for $650. but the longer you wait the more it could cost especially for the airfare. you may want to check out flying into prove conditions which may be cheaper and a 42 minute drive from there to the stadium and the latest price for tickets to go to the game on stub hub are around $195 to well more than $3500 and on ebay the prices begin at around 210 dollars. as the ravens are continuing their drive towards the superbowl, we want to see your pictures. danielle sent in this photo of connor all decked out in his ravens gear. he is sporting the flacco few man chew and i may have to break mine out this morning. what do you think? >> you need to brake it out. he's cutie pie and i broke mine out last friday. you have to do it. it's good times for sure.

we will talk about that. i will do it later but let's talk about the weather because it's important this morning. aid little wet out there -- it's a little wet out there. we are not dealing with too much ice. we got reports in carroll and york county of sleet. now we are dealing with rany conditions this morning. and -- rany condition this morning many we will -- rainy conditions this morning and we will see off and on rain throughout the day. mild air going through the afternoon. around 54 for a high today. it's not going to be a real cold rain. through the 8:00 time frame tapering off showers going through the evening and that's good news out there. and then we will get much more sunshine in here as we go into tomorrow. but temperatures are really going to drop off. so for today, 54 degrees. periods of rain and mild and breezy and by tonight temperatures coming in around 35 degrees. the showers will be tapering off but the wind will be on the gusty side -- winds will be on the gusty side. 39 degrees and ample sunshine

and colder and breezy outside as well. here's a check of the seven-day forecast. as we check out the windy conditions on wednesday and into thursday, warming up going into the weekend. now angela. >> reporter: on the roads, pretty serious accident in davidsonville but we have an alternate route. police say they may have davidsonville 50 at 424 shut down until 6:00 as they try to clear the tractor trailer involved in the accident. you may want to hop on ross beck road which is a good alternate to get around the situation. heading into baltimore this morning, traveling on i-95, looking pretty good and traveling on 29 northbound lanes are moving well all the way up to i-70. a live look at i-97 north of benfield boulevard, no reported incidents as well. now back to you. the finger-pointing has begun in the case of the cruise ship that ran aground in italy. what investigators say may have happened and who may be

responsible. and where the captain is today. where you can find the eye catching creative homes on wheels and more importantly who's claiming them. details coming up when "good morning maryland" continues on this tuesday, january 17th.

now "good morning maryland" at 4:30. news time is 4:57. this is a live look of that cruise ship off the italy coast where the captain of the coasta concordia will be in court -- costa concord yeah will be in court. he is accused of causing the wreck that caused the death. it cap sighed off the coast friday night. and in thailand people found the ingredient for explosive devices in a building in central thailand. officials say the lebanese suspects with alleged ties to a

terrorist group led police to the house. they found fertilizer and 10 gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate. raid was after the u.s. and israel warned of a security threat targeting citizens in bangkok. creative mobile homes on display. trucks and buses converted into the most colorful houses featuring some unique designs. they are used by gypsies who spend their lives on the road and make living from hand crafted arts and crafts. now "good morning maryland ." a terrifying home invasion in glen burnie. the victim says he was tortured for hours. who police are look for and where it happened. -- looking for and where it happened. plow testers hit the streets again. new reaction from authorities on the arrest. his voice was familiar to most of us every day in the legacy lives on. the respect hundreds will pay to ron smith later today.

it's tuesday, january 17th. good morning. i am charley crowson. let's head over to meteorologist lynette charles with a check of the forecast and you're going to do that cheer a little later this morning. i am calling you out. >> i know i keep my promises. yes i will do it. you know, what it's going to be a soggy tuesday, but the good news is it's not a soggy monday right? so we will be seeing off and on showers going throughout the day. temperatures are going to be on the mild side. so it won't be a cold rain. i am forecasting 54 degrees and it gets cold going into tomorrow but the sunshine moves back in. i have a little bit of good with the bad going throughout the day. so maryland's most powerful radar not so great for the commute out this morning. if you are going to be checking southward into dc and virginia, you will get in on the heavier rein across the area. and even maybe if you are heading across the bay, you will be dealing with heavier rain as well. so taking you to easton also into traffic and see some of the yellows moving into cambridge. now over to angela with y