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now "good morning maryland." new vomits in the cruise ship disaster in italy. latest on the death toll and search for survivors. >> you slack off one bit they will hurt you. >> and they will hurt you bad. of course we are talking about the relentless patriots in phots borrow. afc title game this weekend a preview coming up as baltimore heads to face tom brady and the pack. and if you were headed to the polls to pick a commander in chief who would win in a poll result that may surprise you ontuesday, january 17th. good morning i am charley

crowson. let's head over to meteorologist lynette charles because as a lot of people are waking up, it's wet outside because of overnight rain. >> it is wet and reports of sleet into york and also carroll county. i am going to show outrain in a second. but for right now i want to show outtemperatures to let you know basically we are above freezing. well above freezing in some spots this morning. so, we are not dealing with icy conditions. but you know if we are at freezing then you will be dealing with slick spots. we are looking at temperatures into bel air right around 35 degrees there. joppa 39. towson coming in at 37. 41 mount airy and college park the same. edgewater around 37. so we are looking at maryland's most powerful radar and here's the rain i wanted to show you. not dealing with snow. no type of wintery mix. but, the bulk of the rain is to the south of us. but as we zoom in, you can see a little bit of light rain movingover towson and overly but going into d.c. that's where you will see the heavier

rain in the yellows and also the dark greens have the rain gear as you head out. now over to angela with the traffic. how are the roads. >> reporter: slick out there this morning. getting reports of even icy spots especially in the westminster region and we are dealing with quite a few incidents this morning. we continue to follow the accident in davidsonville where police are blocking your westbound lanes of 50 at 424. you are getting by very slowly using 1 eastbound lane. planning to take the drive on u.s. 29, traffic is flowing at a normal pace. southbound heavier as usual making the drive through the columbia region. another live look of i-95 northbound at maryland 32. so far this morning traveling towards the capital beltway on 95 a good route and conditions moving well for the southbound travelers towards the capital beltway. over to you charley. a search going on overnight for survivors from the wrecked cruise ship in italy. abc2 news linda so is here with

more information and you know, my wife and i watched this throughout the weekend and you could never take your eyes off the cruise ship tipped over off the coast. >> reporter: that's where it is standing this morning. we've heard that rescuers have found another body. that brings the death toll to seven and 29 people are still missing. let's look live of that ship as you mentioned. it's still on its side and there are fears that this could turn into an environmental disaster with fuel from the ship that could possibly leak into the ocean soon. we have learned divers have located the second black box from the cruise ship and in few hours the captain of the ship will appear in court. he is accused of bringing the ship too close to store causing it to hate reef e faces possible charges -- he faces possible charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship. we are hearing more from survivors who was told the ship was experiencing an electrical problem. after they realized it was much more serious, things turned chaotic. pass injuries say the crew didn't know how to help people put on life vests and operate

lifeboats. a newlywed couple from pennsylvania says no crew members could be found and passengers actually formed a human chain to lower one another into lifeboats. be a this -- and this morning the search continues for the 29 people missing and including a retired couple from minnesota. linda so, abc2 news. in news around the nation, we have more going on in maine where a toddler who vanished before christmas says she is arranging for investigators for the mother and other family members to be tested through polygraph regarding the disappearance. the 1-year-old was reported missing december 17th by her father. he told police that she was not in the bed when he woke up in his home and took a polygraph test after the child disappeared. results have not been released. and two firefighters are injured after a large explosion leveled a town home in new york city. look at construction crew that

hate gas main while digging sending the leaking gas into the home. firefighters knocked on the door moments before the explosion. those two firefighters were taken to the hospital with burns and smoke inhalation. two construction workers were injured. investigators don't believe anyone was inside the house at the time of the explosion. we hope to see boss boston's mayor -- boston's mayor wearing but denver a mayor is making good on a met with michael's mayor to be sure his broncos would beat the pack last week so he promised -- pat last week so he promised to wear number 12 at a public event if denver lost. hancock says it was hard putting on the jersey but thanked the broncos for an exciting season. patriots will play the ravens coming up sunday in the afc title game. few flurries this winter but how do you feel about the possibility let me get this right, 27 feet of snow? that's a reality for one town

in alaska. how they are he dealing with the record breaking amount of powder. what they are doing to stay alive. and seems like you will have to get a chance to play with your steve jobs action figure. we talked about this. but the idea is no longer in production. details after we get back from new york and check of this morning's tech bites. >> reporter: in today's tech bikes a wikipedia blackout. english language version will not be available for 24 hours a protest over antipie ratty sills. they say it would make censorship easier and spores say it would -- supporters say it would crackdown on online theft of music and other content. zappos says they were hackedexposing the ternal data and if you use the password on other sites change it.

angry birds with brides and the object is to lower your dourry but hurling objects at perspective husbands but it's intended to show the evils of the illegal do youry system used in many south asian countries. those are your tech bites. have good day.

now "good morning maryland." take a look at what's known as the snowiest place in as las catch the they have got more than 322 inches -- alaska. they have gotten more than 322 inches of snow. some people are trapped in theirhomes and opening the door can bring down mounds of snow on their head and the bad news is they have half a winter to go before the alaskans can look

forward to even thinking about thawing out. okay. i've got -- look at that. >> i am laughing because you want the snow. >> i don't want that much. >> see, you know, if you want the snow, there's your snow. you've been hounding me about the snow, go to to alaska. all we have is a little bit of rain across the the area. we will go on a radar tour on maryland's most powerful radar and you can see the bulk of the rain is to the south as of now. but, as we zoom in on baltimore, we are looking at a few showers. light showers around parkville passing through towson and into middle river and essex. going to dc, you will get a little bit more wet because we can see heavier rain into virginia as well around alexandria dc and mitchellville more of the same. sliding off toward the east a. shield of green across the area. that's going to be the scenario going through this morning. let's go over to angela. tell me how you feel about the snow. >> reporter: well, actually, lynette i am not with the guys. i can do without the snow.

i am fine with things the way they are right now. and, of course, this morning we are not dealing with snow, but we are dealing with wet roadways from the overnight rain. reduced speed is what you will need to think about this morning as you head out. dealing with quite a few accidents. another one reported in the hampstead area. mount carmel road at glen powder road. folks getting an early start heading -- heading out. northbound on i-95 through the jessup region and through the bw parkway north bound lanes picking up the pace as well, there. here on 695 at baltimore national pike, we have plenty of company. outer loop and inner loop on the west side we mentioned a lot of folks getting an early start. and take mta this morning, light rail marc and subway are on schedule. expect minor delays on the buses however. charley over to you. an action figure depicting steve jobs will not happen. apple and jobs family have put pressure on the toy maker to

shelf the project. icons.com says the idea was driven by a fan's admiration of steve jobs and it was to feature his black turtleneck, glasses and jeans and sneakers and would have sold for around $100. but the company says out of respect for the family, it's not going to make the doll. we have a few people we want to wash happy birthday and names you know but you may not know them -- wish a happy birthday and names you may know but not know personally. betty white and first lady michelle obama turning 48. his team was knocked out of playoff but you may see time for tebow on sunday. denver quarterback could be part of a championship weekend. how and where you could see him coming up sunday. sherrie. >> reporter: are you thinking of traveling with the ravens to foxborough on sunday? i am sherrie johnson with the look of a the best prices coming up. ♪

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had reed and ravens defense. this new england team has outscored the past four opponents 162 to 78. now by nfl standards that's unthinkable. >> we have played four -- the last four time going back to 97 all have been wars an though they have won 3 of the four, they had to earn it. so you know, this was not going to be any different. >> no it's not. kick off is set for 3 in foxborough mass a quick glance of the forecast calls for a high in the low 40s and a slight chance of snow perfect for playoff football. news time is 5:47. -- 46 -- 5:46. and ravens fans heading to foxborough may have good reason to celebrate. sherrie johnson joins us with a look for travel plans coming up for somebody's big game. >> reporter: well, right now things are look pretty good for ravens fans traveling planning to travel to foxboro for the

championship game. agents at liberty travel said you could score a round trip ticket to boston two nights at a hotel in beantown and ticket to the game for 655 dollars yowsm may want to check out flying into providence which might be a little cheaper. it's 42 minutes to the stadium. also amtrak is in the same price range as airfare. but the longer you wait, the more it could cost you. especially on the airfare. >> the more expensive it gets. especially for something hike this whichw a short window of travel, everybody is going to want to get up on saturday, sunday morning and have to come home by monday. so, the flights will sell out fast and it is quite a long drive so i am sure people want to get on the airplane and get up there in an hour and a half and enjoy themselves. >> reporter: now you can find game tickets on ebay and stub hub. this is where we found a few ticket prices. you can see they are starting at 195 dollars and this range all the way -- those are for

singlenose bleed seats and up to 600 a pair on the 50 yard line. so lots of good deals and you have to dig so there's great deals if you are heading to foxboro but tough grab them quickly. reporting live in the interactive news center, sherrie johnson. >> look at this. this is a little ravens fan and a little flacco fan. danielle posted a great shot of connor. what do you think that. >> i love it. it's one on friday so you have to get yours. this is the cutest picture. >> there's one on my desk and if you are doing the cheer i will wear it later. head to the facebook fan page and post your pick and let us know how you are getting ready for sunday's big game. so is it tebow time for cbs? yahoo sports.com reports the eye has approached them serving as aanalyst for the pregame coverage of sunday's afc championship game. his handler says the qb will

have an answer by midweek but we want to know what you think. head over to my facebook fan page charley crowson wmartv and let me know what you think. can't get enough tebow or is enough finally enough? we will have thoughts and your thoughts a little later in the show. we have several primaries to get through before we know who will be taking on president obama. but if the general election were held today between the democrat and republican two gop candidates would be given the president a real challenge. that's according to a cnn, orc poll. it shows right now if mitf romney were the nominee 48% -- mitt romney were nominee 48% would vote for him and 47% for president obama. if the election today and ron paul was the republican candidate he would be in close to tie with the president. both of those polls though do fall within the margin of error. today jury selection begins in the civil rights trial arising from the death of a frederick man after he was shocked by a deputy stun gun.

the parent of him are seek more than $100 million from the frederick county sheriff for using excessive force against their son in novemberthey say t twice with the gun while trying to break up a fight. the 20-year-old was hearing impaired and a police investigation revealed he was not wearing his hearing aid and may not have heard the commands. in 2008 a jury found the sheriff was justified for the use of force. six maryland schools will be awarded blue ribbon school awards today recognized for high performance and significant improvement in reading and math in the state assessment statistic. the -- test. the school will be honored this morning at 9:30. time for a check of the forecast with lynette. all right. let's take a look at the satellite and radar. we have rain out there. we have clouds and we had the first round last night. this is the second batch this morning. and then it looks like we will get a break in here as the system moves from the west to the east and then we will get more rain in here.

so we will see periods of rain throughout the day and the reason why we saw the rain change over so quickly or the sleet change over so quickly temperatures and also the southerly flow of the winds. so that's good news. it will be breezy as it was yesterday. but the direction of the winds definitely helped to warm things up. and as we went throughout the evening. our weather pattern for today, this system is poised to move through. and that's why temperatures will be in the 50s for today. nice and moiled. and we will have the cold front swing through going through the rest of the evening and drop temperatures down for tomorrow. future trend picking up on the rain we will see going throughout the day. grab the rain gear as you head out and about and then it picks up on that sunshine that we will see as we go into tomorrow. now, today that temperature right around 5 # degrees periods of rain and it will be mild and also breezy and then as we go through tonight temperatures coming in around 35 degrees and the rain will start to taper off and the winds will pick up as well. by tomorrow, 39 ample sunshine and colder and a bit breezy and

here's the check of the 7-day forecast planning accordingly. we will see temperatures in the low 40s as we go into thursday. still dry on friday and then we have rain possibly by saturday. angela. how is the traffic? >> reporter: it's a bit busy. wet and soggy is what you can expect for this tuesday morningdrive as you head out for the commute. quite a few incidents. a lot of activity heading into downtown. getting reports of traffic flow increasing on northbound 295 as well as northbound 395 making your way into conway street. if you plan to travel heading into the city on 29 this morning, northbound lanes at maryland 108 flowing pretty good up to i-70 moving well to the west side of the beltway. here's a live look of the west side 695 at wilkins avenue, already we are seeing heavy traffic on the outer loop lanes traveling through pikesville and catonsville occasionally slow spots around the interchange. now over to you.

300 cases go before a judge and he will decide in 30 seconds on each one. why the court docket in florida is called a rocket docket and what it could mean for the plaintiffs. and you are not going to be able to look at anything on wikipedia tomorrow. why that website is going dark for 24 hours. details straight ahead when "good morning maryland" continues on this tuesday, january 17th.

the captain of the downed italian cruise ship will be in court today and you are looking live off the italian coast of the cruise ship. it's now where it's been since late friday night in to saturday morning. ship's owner accused the captain of causing the accident leaving6 dead and 29 missing. two americans are among the missing. towards ridding itself a backlog florida seminole county courts will have 300 scheduled foreclosures in the next three days. several judges will suspend retirement for the rocket docket proceedings. most case will be uncontested and each is estimated to take about 30 seconds once it reaches the bench. and the president will have his jobs council meeting later

this morning. that this afternoon the president will host king abdullah of jordan at the white house and then later tonight, the president will honor the world series champion st. louis cardinals. that's what's on tap for the president. and joining the protest against two proposed internet regulation bills wikipedia english language site will be blacked out wednesday. beginning at midnight, on january 18th ring visitors will -- 18th visitors will see a protest message. back in 2002 he paid more than 500,000 dollars for a house in miami. reports now say o.j. simpson may be about to lose that home. who's taking over the property. and she was trying to help mom in the kitchen. now her brother saved her from a near disaster. a new study determines how babies learn to talk. this could help diagnose children with autism. all of that straight ahead in the 6:00 hour of "good morning maryland" including weather and traffic. we are back in a few moments. stay with us. i'm good about washing my face.

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