the winds howling. very gusty. that's the main story for today. but the saturday m light and radar not picking up on a lot. the cold front is sliding through at area and clearing things out as high pressure makes its way back in going throughout the day today. if you want the snow, you will have to head up into pennsylvania and west virginia. there's getting a few flurries across the area. but temperatures you can see where the cold front made its way through. oakland very cold coming in at 25 there. and 44 in baltimore and we are dealing with the wind so the winds are gusty. check out joppa close to 40 and 30 in bel air for a gusts and 32 in towson. and man chaster 40-mile-an-hour wind gusts. it's going to be windy so let's check the traffic with angela. you have to hold on stot steering wheel with both hand. >> reporter: we are gearing up for windy drive. wind warming effect on the bay bridge traveling on 50. also on the east side of 695, wind warnings in effect for the key bridge there.

and due to the wind, we are dealing with problem in myersville this morning. southbound lanes of wolfville road a tree has fallen across the southbound lanes. police are directing you around the scene of that. otherwise, no reported troubles so far making the drive on 29. we are delay free and incident free there. and if you are traveling on the harrisburg expressway, look like a good wednesday morning commute so far on i-83. 83 at maryland, 45 your southbound volume picking up between middle belfast. over to you. >> the day five of the search for any survivors aboard a cruise ship off the italian coast and now it's a race against time to find some of the dozens still missing. the ship's captain is under house arrest so for more let's go over to sherrie johnson with developments. >> reporter: well, we have learned in the past hour that search teams have suspend operations due to large waves washing up against the ship. the death toll has risen to 11 dead and 29 missing including

an american couple barbara and gerald hill. the captain is under house arrest accused of steering offcourse causing the wreck and abandoning the crew and passengers. the wife of the italian captain was swarmed by media as she returned home this morning while her husband went through a back door. an audiotape from the night of the wreck shows the coast guard order the captain back aboard while sat safely on a rescue boat. >> you are in charge of those lives and you have to be responsible. and he wasn't. >> he was a coward. i mean. we are fighting for our lives and he is more concerned about himself. >> reporter: the captain never returned to the ship leaving the crew and passengers to save their lives without him. crew members say he was eating dinner when the ship ran aground and long gone when the evacuation order was given. sherrie johnson, abc2 news.

in news around the nation, investigators in los angeles are now hoping to come up with a identity of the victim whose head was found. it was in a plastic bag and found by two dogs with the women as they were walking. police say the man's head didn't appear to have been there for very long. they are going to go back in the area later this morning to search for more possible clues. and new information released by police in colorado. help to answer a number of questions about how a man's decomposing body went unnoticed in a theater bathroom for five days. the man died of a heart attack on the toilet. that according to a 21-page police report where police attempted several times to get theater employees to thoroughly check the premises for the missing man. five employees have been suspended and the movie theater is conducting its own investigation. a routine traffic stop led police to charge a woman with animal cruelty. officers discovered 128 dogs in one u-haul truck. police near memphis say the dogs were crammed in three or

four to a crate and packed inside. they were the dogs in a white meny van attached to the truck. officers say it's likely the animals had not been walked or fed in days and they were living in complete filth. they are being looked at by animal rescue groups this morning. it's 5:34. and jubilation in washington for a washington state family rescue crews found the man after he was missing in mount ranker in the national park. see how the snowy conditions are and he went missing saturday. he was experienced snowshoer but was separated from the group after sliding down a slope. to stay alive, he ate chocolate and kept warm by running in place and kept a fire going by burning his socks and $6 cash in his pocket. he is doing fine and resting comfortably. thankfully in his bed. it's one heck of a mobile. why this boot will be on wheels and where it's going make the next stop and more importantly, why is a big boot on wheels

driving around? plus, herman cain for president. how one comedian is drumming up support for the former presidential candidate. that story straight ahead. but first, let's go back to new york for a check of this morning's tech bites. >> reporter: in today's tech bites your favorite website may not be available today. wikipedia english language version is off line with a message blasting the antipiracy bills. google is working but takes a shot at attempted censorship. yahoo cofounder is leaving the company. the announcement two weeks after they hire the first crest o in five years. and new light bulbs are take the place of traditional bulbs. led bulbs are durable and inner -- energy efficient and long lasting. >> there's joke if you bought one of these bulbs in your child's baby room, you wouldn't have to replace it until your child went to college. while using it for eight hours a day lasting for 17 years.

>> reporter: but the bulbs are much more expensive than traditional bulbs and those are your tech bites.

now "good morning maryland." storms near the missouri- kansas border. check out this lightning in missouri. a spectacular show from mother nature. meteorologists say the storm system produced quarter sized hail and wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour in and this is one boot that would keep you warm probably got interior heat. l.l. bean celebrating a century of business and the company unveiled this boot mobile and it's larger life size version much larger than the life size version of the product the bean boot. the boot mobile is headed for new york and will hit other

major u.s. cities later in the year. leon wood is l.l. bean found the company with a single product, the main hunting shoe. he designed it after returning from a hunting trip with cold wet feet. time for a check of the forecast. no cold, wet feet around here. >> cold but you know that booed would have been better if it was a louboutin. >> what? >> yes. >> what? >> okay. right now temperatures coming in 41 in dundalk. 40s around here and not too bad. way above average right now. but we are dealing with the wind and we have the wind sustained at 15 to 20 miles an hour and a lot of spots. so making it for feeling very cold out there. but check out the gusts. 37 in dundalk. 41 in carney. churchville around 36 and arnold is 40. so the wind chill feels like this. feels more like 34 in carney and feels like 37 in dundalk. arnold right around 32 so heading out and about bundle up this morning because we are

feeling the chill. let's go over to angela who has the traffic. good morning. >> reporter: louboutin right? lieuy have aton. we are getting more and more reports of wind. hold on especially on the bridges and ramps. we have wind warnings on area bridges as well. as far as accidents, we are pretty good around the baltimore region. traveling down towards the capital beltway, on 495, inner loop at georgia avenue, we have an accident reported there. but if you are heading that way, i-95 is a clear route. here's a look at 95. southbound lanes on the left of the screen. we are getting a bit busy. as we always do this time of morning. and speaking of getting busy, here's west side of 695 at wilkins avenue to the left. outer loop lanes also crowding as you make the drive through the catonsville region heading to 95 on the southwest side.

charley. all right. so if you thought herman cain was out of the picture for the presidency think again. >> there's one name on the ballot that stands for true american herman cain. >> that's not herman cain that's stephen colbert and wanted to run for president in south carolina but it's too late to get on the ballot and write-ins are not allowed in that state. so the solution is herman cain is on the ballot so you can take his place. >> anybody who shares my values can show it by voting for herman cain. >> it will be interesting how today see how it plays out because cain has not commented on the campaign but stephen colbert is certainly very popular. you can see almost anything including a portrait of stephen colbert when you go to the smith sownial museum a new exhibit will say a lot about the evolution of how far we have conin video games in 30

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now "good morning maryland ." occupy protesters have returned a long day in d.c. they spent the day occupying congress, supreme court and white house. linda so is here with a wrap of what happened. there were a little bit of a skirmish outside the white house. >> reporter: there was. but before we get to that, we have learned a house oversightsomebody committee will hold a hearing on why protesters have been allowed to stay in mcpherson square despite a ban on camping on state park. four people were arrested. it began with a stop at thenation's capital where they -- capitol where they chanted and sang as than marched up constitutional avenue to the supreme court and then off to the behight house. at one point-- white house. at one point a secret service spokesman says the crowd swelled to 1500 police bringing out police in riot gear and someone threw a device believed to be a smoke bomb over the white house fence.

no one was hurt. the crowd was told to leave and everyone did. >> this is about income and equality and this is about rights for people. >> reporter: the president and first lady werer celebrating michelle obama's birth date at a restaurant during the incident. news time is 5:45 and grand jury indicted a idaho man accused of shooting at the white house. you can see mug house of oscar ortega her nan disease -- hernandez. he was accused of firing multiple shots out of the window of a car in november. they say he then drove off but crashed the vehicle nearby and had to run away on foot. ortega hernandez said he was car jacked and the attacker must have fired the shots. hopefully you've gotten your wikipedia searches done for the date and it's not dash and it's not 6:-- and it's not even 6:00. this is the online enpsych low peeda where it went to black

protesting antipiracy legislation up for debate in congress. two bills known as sopa and pipa target overseas sites allowing useers to share illegal down loads of movies, music and other digital contentment it will try to cut off access to the sites by requiring u.s. search engines and other providers to withhold services. >> in the worst versions of the bill, wikipedia would be a search engine and would not be able to even link to something like the pirate bay even in our description of what it is. that's problem and raises serious first amendment issues. >> the sopa would open away for websites to be shut down for copyright inspringment. white house says it's a problem but has come out against the bill saying they limit freedom of expression. an antiprofanity crusader against abc is now saying pull tonight's episode of modern

family war toddler appears to -- where a toddler appears to use a bleeped out curse word. 2-year-old lily allegedly uses the f word and the tv bleeped out. the child actually says fudge during the show's taping but an 18-year-old college student who founded the no cussing club in 2007 says that's not appropriate. abc has yet to comment on the little bleep episode and plans to air it tonight. is this episode and i proapt or funny because kids do say the darnedest things? we want you to weigh in on the facebook page and we want you to watch modern family tonight on abc2 tonight beginning at 9:00. time for a little sports. if you want to go to the ravens game, keep an eye out for the gold. they have painted one gold logo in each maryland county. if you spot it, take a picture of it and upload it to the ravens facebook page and you

could be choseen to head to the ravens versus pats game this sunday at 3 kick off from foxboro and here's the kicker, though, you would be going for free. and many ravens fans will not be fries spriested by this. ter -- surprised by this terrell suggs a the afc defense i player of the year. -- defensive player of the year. he had an afc high 14 sacks this season along with forcing a team high 7 fumbles. he broke the ravens all time record for sacks standing at 81 1/2. the indianapolis colts are look for a new coach and they sacked yim caldwell. he finished his third and worst season as head coach of the colts colts and started 0-13 and tied for the worst start in team history. they finished disappointing 2-4 team without injured quarterback peyton manning. firing is more than two weeks after the vice chairman and

vice president manager also -- or general manager were hand the perching slips. a list of america's 100 best beer bars is out and baltimore city has two on the list. the brewers are in brewers hill and max's tap house and they are recognize on this year's list. and a brand new exhibit is coming to the smithsonian american art museum and sure to make video gamers happy. it explores the art and evolution of video games. the art of video games will focus on graphics, technology and story telling of some of the best games for systems from the atari to ps3. it opens march 16th and will be viewed through washington through the end of september. so you can check out. new york student who excelled in studies despite being homeless has been invited to the president's state of the union speech. samantha var have i will be attempt -- garvey will be attended -- she was named a

finest and is up for a $100,000 scholarship e thought her presence will be important to influence the attendees of the address. that's scheduled for january 24. dealing with some colder temperatures back toward the west but that cold front will move through and it's passing through a lot of portions. so slicing through the eastern shore and once it does, the temperatures are going to fall throughout the day. you see the green milders temperatures this morning and back towards the west dealing with the blue meaning we will get cold in here. so the wind are the big story. see them sustained now out of the northwest at 15 to 20 miles an hour. easton coming in at around 21 with gusts up to about 35 miles an hour. even 40 in some spots this morning making it feel like 32 in york. satellite and radar picking up on the fact you can see clearing as he -- fact you can see clearing throughout the

rest of the day. especially due to the fact we will be seeing plant of sunshine. the -- plenty of sunshine. high pressure is going to do its thing and show us that it doesn't look too bad but it is going to feel colder than what it is. so as we check out what's happening on friday, looking pretty good and then our temperatures today coming in right around 40 degrees. temperatures will be falling throughout the day. and mostly sunny and wendy by tonight and the temperatures around 24. much colder less windy but that 24 is where we should be now for this time of the year. by tomorrow, 42 degrees and suncloud mix and kelly outside. now over to -- chilly outside. now over to angela with the traffic. >> reporter: the wind is the big story out there on the roads. maybe a bit shaky. as a matter of fact, for those of you traveling on 40, in havre de grace, we have wind warnings on the hatem bridge so prepare for a windy drive. as far as accidents, we are in good shape. all lanes are open on most key

routes. we are not experiencing any major delays as we get a live look at traffic flow. here on 29, of course the southbound direction always a bit heavy this time morning. but moving at a pretty good pace. let's check on the top side of 695 as you make the drive from i-95 over to the harrisburg expressway. outer loop lanes moving well on the top of the screen. make the drive past providence road. follow us this morning on twitter at maryland traffic. over to you. the president is headed to des any world but not for a -- disney world but not for a family vacation. the message he hopes to get across. and air travel is going back to cuba when you can hop on a flight for the island and what visiting a dig teary may have to do -- dig teary may have to do-- dig teary may have to do -- dig teary may have to do with when the flights start. ♪

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five things to know on this wednesday. u.s. conference of mayors winter meetings begin today in the nation's capital. the annual winter meeting is a forum for mayors in washington leaders to come together and discuss pressing issues impacting u.s. cities and other metropolitan areas. and president obama is heading to disney world

promoting the we can't wait for congress campaign. the move highlights the president's desire to enact policy without congressional approval and in the past month the number of president obama's proposal stalled in both house of congress. a one daybreak from the gop campaign trail to return to washington and vote on the president's request to raise the debt ceiling. the texas congressman returns to south carolina to campaign ahead of saturday's state primary is going to vote against the debt increase. charter flights from bwi and cuba will begin on march 21st. bwi announced the flights will leave at 3 in the afternoon. weekly service begins the week before the pope scheduled to visit the communist island nation. and the seattle area is being salted and sanded but remains paralyzed as the snowstorm expected to dump more than a foot on the city today. the city's mayor is telling everyone to stay home and stay off the road. and forcasters say if you live south of seattle, you can get more than a foot without any

problem. federal, state and local law enforcement officials will be at the white house. up next, why the group will be focused on home grown fareor. -- terror. plus, the new role katy perry will add to her resume. and don't let anyone tell youyou laugh too much. lynette. the health benefits you may be getting out of adding a joke or two into your day. what what's new, now and next coming up. and we are back in a bit.

are's watching the station that works for you "good morning maryland shifting pension cost part of the governor's plan. police want to know war howard county woman accused of -- where a howard county woman accused of hoarding animals is.