live look now at the ride home. it is clear. in less than 12 hours, it will be a mess. meteorologist, wyatt everhart, is tracking the system that's headed our way with maryland's most powerful radar and the winter weather alert. >> we have been tracking this approaching wintery weather for more than 24 hours, and it's showing more on maryland's most powerful radar. you can see it through ohio, snow in michigan and western pennsylvania now. and additional moisture the form of rain feeding in to this thing, south. maryland is going to be on the rain-snow-sleet line as we saw. winter weather advisory, except for the eastern shore. cecil west, in to southern maryland, dc w the advisory starting at 11:00 p.m., through 1:00 through the day tomorrow. morning hours tomorrow welcomes be slick and icy on any untreated surfaces. the evening quiet with 30s,

increasing clouds and flurries, but in to the overnight, we begin to kick things in the overdrive with the winter weather maker. slow, sleet, freezing rain in the morning, we look ahead to the sunday time frame, coming up. seems like everybody around here has purple fever and ring factory elementary is no exception. roosevelt leftwich is here with a look at what happened when the purple caravan made a special stop there. >> it was anarchy. they made lots of stops, i have to believe none were as fun as this one in bel air. they stopped everything to celebrate. they received pictures. ring factory is one of 7 schools that's a part of the

purple caravan. roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news where are you cheering on the ravens? we want to see you, your family and pets decked out. share your purposed pride. upload your pictures to the abc2 news fan page. the abc2 news team rerelentless with the coverage st get ready for the game was. join us on st until 2:00 sundays afternoon with the second special, we call it way to indy. abc2 news jamie costello and scott garceau will be live in new england and we have crews live out and about with fans in baltimore. the show airs from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. let us know what you are doing on twitter using the hash tag way toindy. stopping what he calls rat trafficking. he is introducing legislation known as rat trafficking act preventing rats from being

transported and set free here in maryland. it is a reaction to a law passed in washington dc, that's called the wildlife protection act. it requires pest control people, government agents or anybody who catches rodents to relocate them somewhere else. he thinks that means maryland and virginia will be at risk for a rat invasion. house republican leaders are hanging back, waiting to endorse the candidates pursuing the nomination. perhaps the most high profile, new jersey governor, chris christie was in baltimore at the group's retreat and already made his choice. christy who considered running earlier in the campaign season, has endorsed mitt romney. a lot of us have things on our bucket list. for one woman she can cross one off of her list. don harrison was in crofton for this special wish. working with children can be

rewarding. she wanted to be back in the classroom, just one more time. what better day to do that than on her 104th birthday. ath grade students had a teachers desk, front and center for her, reminded her how life was in the year she was born, 1908. >> it was the first mother's day. only 14% of the homes had a bathtub. >> teaching hasn't changed much over all these years. >> i enjoy it. i really liked teaching. it was just interesting everyday was different. some days didn't turn out so good. >> she is excited to be here, the kids are just as excited to

meet her. >> i wouldn't imagine i would meet someone that was 104. >> it was exiting to meet someone that is accomplished as she is. >> it makes a difference in people's lives. >> if you don't believe she is 104 years old, just ask her. >> i was born january 20th, 1908. now you are 104. >> yes. on my way. >> don harrison, abc2 news. >> more than 30 years teaching 5th graders in virginia and west virginia. go out and eat thanks to good keel deals on dining with the winter restaurant weeks. participating restaurants have three course dinner or lunch

deals. select restaurants have a two course lunch menu. log on to abc2news.com, check out the lifestyle section for details on the participating restaurants. 21 victims are still missing from last week's italian cruise ship disaster. how rescuers are trying to continue searching despite the extremely dangerous conditions. schools are closed, power is out for some as fire sweeped through one reno community. the damage as the flames begin to die down.

new video from inside the costa concordia, the wrecked cruise ship. rescue crews are inside the ship before they had to call off the search for the missing victims. it was suspended was the ship moved making the mission risky for divers. conditions inside are dangerous. crews are focusing on parts of the ship not under water but hope to get back in the water tomorrow. 11 people died when the ship ran aground last week. 26 homes were destroyed after a wind fueled wild fire ripped through reno. the fire started after noon thursday and spread quickly. fire crews are getting a handle

on the flames, 2000 people are under evacuation orders. the cause is unknown, yesterday, the flames got less than 100 yards from galena high school, vice president joe biden was speaking there. everyone was evacuated safely. schools were closed today. w 2ás are starting to arrive, chances you are gathering the paperwork and want to get rid of old documents. we will tell you what to shred and what to keep ahead. candidates are out before the primary. we are live with the latest and how the race is changing.

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>> lots of great things on tap here at max's, it's a local beer for a local team. go ravens. >> what are you drinking? >> i'm drinking loose cannon, american ipa. >> that's what i need is loose cannon. all right. kelly, thanks so much. i'm going join that soon. join us, we are here until 8:00. thank ravens zone for sending down michael. don't forget to wear your purple, honey.

should you save it or shred it? that's the question we are asking. john matarese shows us when it's safe to shred. >> reporter: now that it's twef twelve it's time to prepare for tax filing and a great time to clean house and get rid of old paperwork you don't need. only question, what should you pitch? what do you need to save? wouldn't it be nice if you could send the boxes of papers to the big shredding truck? it would make your home feel cleaner. after one year, you can safely

toss old credit card bills and statements, utility bills and cell phone bills. wait four years to shred bank statements, insurance statements, and receipts for tvs and big ticket items in case you need warranty work. documents you will regret shredding, save tax documents for at least ten years. not the 3-5 years somed a some advisors suggest. never shred papers saying you paid off your mortgage or car loan. some questions can come up about a car loan ten years after you paid it off. having the documents will help greatly. feel the old bills and receipts but loan and tax documents as long as you can so you don't waste your money. i'm john matarese.

let's look at it out there , the winds picking up, on the whole weather has been quiet on this friday across baltimore, ahead of another weather maker. this is more significant than the flurries last night. 32bwi, at the freezing mark. road surfaces coming down to where anything that falls tonight will stick fairly well if the surface hat not been pretreated. baltimore, through the day, blue skies for the early morning. the clouds sweep in ahead of the next weather maker tonight, how about the leading edge of clouds in lorel, at the high school an ex here. clouds rolling in a little bit earlier here in state capitol. we are all clear now. next several hours through the evening, weather looks good and we will continue to look good. once rehit 1 1á78 p.m.

or so, we look for winter weather to push in. winter weather advisory for the entire western two-thirds of maryland, does not include the eastern shore from kent county south, back through the beaches, here we think primarily a rape event, but on the western shore, west, all of southern maryland and dc area, icy accumulations will be possible. with sleet, freezing rain, all it takes is a quarter of an inch. we could see higher totals as you go in to northern maryland, towards the pennsylvania state line. mid-30s to 20s to the west. we see snow coming down, in west virginia. rain pushing in, out of the south through the carolinas. all set to converge on maryland later tonight. two different areas of disturbed weather, kind of getting wrapped up in to one storm system over the tennessee valley. lit continue to impact us overnight and through the mid- morning hours tomorrow as it encounters cold air that is in place.

we saw bwi down to the freezing mark. clear for the next few hours ore than increasing clouds. stopping at midnight. snow is beginning. this starts as snee and snow mixed with sleet. could be above freezing layer above that. that would make it a sleet event. 6:00, 7:00 in the morning, freezing rain and all rain as we push past say 10:00, 11:00 in the morning and rain on the eastern shore later in the day. we will clear out tomorrow in to sunday. it's the key timing for early morning travelers too many, you want to give yourself extra time and use caution. wait to head out until lunchtime and everything should be probably fine by fine. overnight, snow and sleet late. crusty, icy accumulation, especially towards the pennsylvania line, snow at the beginning of this thing, before seeing a changeover and

tomorrow, 38, and early icy mix, we go to rain showers after we push past noon, and then tomorrow night, cold, and blustery, 24 with refreezing in untreated areas. the game, 34, barely above freezing, could be flurries, snow on the ground if foxboro, as they could see a half a foot or more on saturday. that's what is tricky about saturday, worse weather as you head towards foxboro. sundays, for the tailgaters here, people headed to the pub, not bad. 37, sunshine. bouncing back in to the 50s next week. got to get through this thing through midday tomorrow. >> if they want to see the ravens this weekend, maybe they should leave now. >> or leave late. tomorrow evening. >> got it. good call. in the democracy 2012 this is the final day of campaigning be of the primary. a contest once thought to be safely in mitt romney's

control, torey joins us live from columbia, south carolina, a lot has changed in the last few days. >> reporter: it has. remember when mitt romney had the major lead in south carolina? that's not the case. it's a head to head, with newt gingrich. the expectations game. one of mitt romney's senior campaign advisors, said they could lose the state. mitt romney chimed in as well. >> i sure would like to win south carolina, but i know that if those polls were right, regardless of who gets the final numb, we are going to get a lot of delegates. i want the most delegates out of south carolina. i don't know what the numbers will be. i'm pretty confident. cautiously optimistic. >> reporter: we are talking about the race is tight. this could go well in to the night.

>> part of newt gingrich's growing momentum came from the strong performance in last night's debate. he was the boss. what do you think about that? >> reporter: it was all about the first question that was asked, last night. went to newt gingrich, a recent interview his ex-wife did, she said he asked for a open relationship. listen to what he had to say. >> i am appalled you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. >> reporter: that was newt gingrich's spin on a potentially damaging story. rick santorum was asked about it today. >> personal matters are personal but matters that particularly when you are in public life, those issues are issues that people will look at. >> reporter: speaking a little bit about rick santorum, one of the underlying story from the debate, is many people think this was his strongest debate

so far. that moment with newt gingrich overshadowed everything else. moving in to the primary tomorrow, here in south carolina, what we are looking at several different things, rick santorum is coming off of a win in iowa. all eyess on the tight race between mitt romney and newt gingrich and you can't count out ron paul. as we have seen, he has done pretty well. >> lighting it up in south carolina. thank you for that report tonight. herman cain may not be a candidate but that may not stop herman cape coming out on top in the south carolina primary. his name is on the ballot in south carolina. he is getting a push from an un like lie source. comedy central host, steven colbert who tried to get his name on the ballot, saying a vote for cain is a vote for colbert. i'm roosevelt leftwich, coming up new at 6:00, days before christmas handed layoff notices. now workers at the steel mill could be days away of going

back to work. the deal that may have saved the mill.

a picture is worth a thousand words, more than you pack in to a tweet or status update. this is growing in popularity. karen looking at the interest. >> reporter: designer by trade, visual by nature. >> i come across an image on a style blog, and i want to capture it and remember it. i'm going back and referring to look books that i store. >> reporter: that that is one of the reasons pin tres caught her eye. >> it allow knows connect with friends -- allows me to connect

with friends through an artistic side. >> reporter: they launched in 2010s but recently exploded in traffic and on line buzz. the premise is similar to the old cork board, users create collections of stuff they like by uploading pins, images from around the web. there are followers, users can like images or repin someone else's item on their own board. unlike other social networking sites it's about cure rating content than creating. what users see than say. >> there is an opportunity to collaborate about ideas and concept, too. there maybe a stickiness that maybe different. >> reporter: it's become popular among women, ideal for wedding planning or sharing fashion and design ideas. right now they are invitation only, users can request an invite or get one from a friend who has already pinned one down. with the big game less than 48

hours away, lots of people are planning party menus but may want to leave chicken wings off. the wholesale price has gone up 52%. the supply of chicken is down and cost of feed is up. what a bummer. two of greatest forces in country muse rick coming together. dollywood, theme park created by dolly pardon, is adding a second location in nashville, occupying 114-acres and opening in to opening in 2014. the fire in couple ber lands killed two young girls, jobs jobs at 6:00 start right now. are you ready for some of this? a bout of winter weather is headel our way. what you can expect for your neighborhood. >> days before christmas, hundreds of employees at the