abc2news.com. a 68-year-old woman hit and killed when a driver speeds off. it left a community devastated. we're used to handing out grades and now the tables are turned. how the national council has graded maryland's teachers. all of that is straight ahead on this wednesday, january 25th. let's head right to lynnette. good morning. we'll be up and over the hump. we'll get a mix of sun and clouds in here. temperatures will be cooler

because we're starting out a little cooler than yesterday. still above normal and we'll start to see showers moving in here as we go into thursday. this is maryland's most powerful radar and we're nice and dry this morning and we're starting to get a few clouds through the day. the wet weather should not get here overnight into tomorrow. as we check out the temperatures this morning, 39 at st. ann's school. the winds out of the northeast at 2 miles an hour. and belvedere, that temperatures is coming in at 38 degrees and the temperatures will go down through the morning. and now over to angela. we're doing great on the roadways. you may run into the overnight work crews at the tunnels and the tidings bridge. if you're on 83, it should be an easy one for you there as we get a live look at the harrisburg expressway and also

83 into the city on the jfx is clear and a quiet ride around the beltway. we're on the west side on 695 all lanes open inner loop an outer loop. remember to follow us on twitter at maryland traffic. an elderly woman left to die on perry hill road after an accident. and that woman's best friend is speaking out. sherrie johnson is live with that woman's response. >> i spoke to the baltimore police and they have not found the person responsible. she was known as miss beverly. she was hit and killed by a driver sunday night near seven courts drive in perry hall. with beverly moore's husband already gone and no children of her own, her best friend is handling her estate. she was hit and killed by a

driver that did not stop. >> someone as alive as she was and to go out the door and never come back it wasn't expected. >> and once again the officers have no suspect at this time. the baltimore county police are looking for a 2005, 2007 ford light colored 500 that they believe has major damage to the right front end. if you see a car with this description or know anything about this hit-and-run, call the police. sherrie johnson, "good morning maryland." another accident led to another driver's death. and it's believed this person was involved in one robbery. his name is aaron mccoy. a car, a jeep and truck were all tangled around a telephone

pole. police were searching for the honda accord that mick coy was driving -- mccoy was driving. >> police officers spotted the vehicle and put on the lights and siren and attempted to pull him whoamplet that did not -- him over. when that did not happen, they started the pursuit. >> and he had an accident with two other injuries. he decide and there were no other injuries. there was a house fire and south fulton avenue where one person jumped from the home. >> people are inside the building. one person just jumped from the second floor. we have a report of two people, second floor in the back room. >> and the neighbors confirmed that both women jumped, one of them with a toddler in her

arms. no word on the cause that have fire. jury deliberations will continue today after jurors spent two hours tuesday night before heading home. the officer accused in the wrongful death trial allegedly used excessive force by shocking a man with a stun gun. and the parents are now seeking $145 million in damages. check out this video. ness clear springs. a man in his 20s was rescued from a cave last night. the victim was in this washington county cave as part of an explorer's group and got stuck on a ledge. the man is still hospitalized this morning. that was the common seen in his third state of the union

address. president obama laid out his economic agenda and today he's kicking it off with a three day trip through key election states to begin selling that agenda he demanded action from a deeply divided congress and called on leaders from both parties to help him fix the economy. >> i plan to fight obstruction with action and ail pose any effort to anyone who tries to go back to what got us in this mess in the first place. we've come too far to turn back now. >> and both sides honored congresswoman gabrielle giffords. the arizona democrat had a 90 second standing ovation before the speech. representative cummings, a democrat from maryland said i

believe that the america that president obama spoke about tonight is possible to regain and we must continue to fight to rebuild manufactureramerican manufacturing and american energy and retrain american workers and renew our american values. republican representative harris said as yet another sign of a steal policies. it was announced today that maryland lost 1200 private sector jobs in the month of december. delegates will hold a press conference today immediately following the legislative session to discuss a new gonzalez poll that has come out on our state's budget. if you ride the metro to go into town, you better dig deeper in your pocket. how much more it will cost you

to park the station. your weather and traffic coming up in two and a half minutes. we're "good morning maryland." that is a live look at the white house.

sometimes getting snowed in can be a nice experience. but in this washington town, six days may be too. they got four feet of snow which has proved to be a major problem. lines and polls have hit the ground as well. and power could be back on within the next couple days. so six days becomes nine days and then ten and two weeks and people are screaming. >> stop, stop, stop. >> people then are screaming. >> that's right. cabin fever is miserable.

not a lot going on. we're mainly clear and we'll get plenty of sunshine in here through the morning and the clouds will be on the increase. we're seeing the clouds blowing off ahead of the next storm system that will be in here from the south and another storm system up there to the north bringing wintry precipitation, i don't think we'll get any of that action because the temperatures will be a little too warm outside. right now we're a little chilly. seasonable in towson, we should be at 24 and should be about 25. arnold is 38, 36 in jop. and now over to a check of our traffic. good morning. good morning. the roads are looking great. i should get out to head out this morning and it's not too bad in the city and also around the beltway. in howard county, here's what you're going find. this is the first tour of u.s. 29 this morning. you're in great shape there. and further north on 29, i-70, no travel issues to report at

this hour. let's see how annapolis traffic are flowing. this is 150 and howard boulevard. moving smooth through i-97. he was fired from penn state a few short months ago and now family and friends are paying their respects to joe paterno in a private cermet moan. -- ceremony but the public can pay their respects as well. we'll tell you how. economics being taught in our school. you're watching what is new now next on "good morning maryland."

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the hall will remove the belfour repair, including a programmable electronic ringer will be installed and put back in early march. price to park at baltimore's station on the rise. at the time raise the rates monthly an hourly. it will go up a dollar. and a president conference will take place today with edwin o'brien. it's his first day back from rome. and the conference will be held at the catholic center beginning at 11:30. and the first of a three day democratic conference will take place today. and ready or not, facebook is changes get. the timeline feature will be mandatory for use users very

soon. right now you can opt n but in a few weeks you will not have an option. once you get the timeline, you have seven days to adjust before it goes live. firefighters put their lives on the line protecting us every day. and a group of firefighters in anne arundel county will do something special for those that lost their lives to breast cancer. we are live to explain what is going on. this is a huge initiative by he's men and women. >> reporter: yes, and they're brave to come out here with us at 4:30 in the morning. they'll make a huge donation. to tell us more about that is the president here. thank you very much for joining us. how much did you guys raised? >> we raised $10,000 for susan g. komen. >> reporter: that is woman how did do you? >> t-shirts. our fire department t-shirt that we normally wear and in december we decided to make it pink. as you can see by the members

behind me, we went through sales on our department and on line sales and we raised $10,000. >> reporter: you must have gotten a lot of sale from the community. >> yes, we did we're always doing something to benefit whether muscular dystrophy or susan g. komen. we work hard with the community on the benefits. >> reporter: will you turn around and model them for us? they came up with the shirts. you designed them yourself. i understand. >> >> one of our members did the design and with debbie's help we brought it to the executive board of the union and then the administration and have them print them up and the story goes from there. >> reporter: wonderful. we'll have more that have story coming up in the next half hour. representatives from susan g. komen will be here and presenting the check for $10,000. live in millersville, linda so. >> for information about the

susan g. komen foundation, go to our website or their websit at komen.org. family and close friends say good-bye to joe paterno and they will lay him to rest in a private service. people have one more opportunity attend a viewing. people can attend the second day of coach paterno's viewing on the penn state campus at the spiritual center there. and a public service will take place on thursday. he was fired months ago following the allegations and his involvement, reported involvement involving jerry sandusky. congresswoman gabrielle giffords will submit her formal letter of resignation from the house of representatives today. she will recover and return. giffords was shot in the head in january of last year.

a suspect shooter, jared loughner is awaiting thinks trial. a middle school was disciplined because he was not allowed to go to the bathroom and he peed in a bottle. the boy's 7th grade teacher refused to let the child go to the best room. he went to an empty bottle and went to the bathroom. he put the bottle in his pants and it fell out and that's when the teacher realize what had he had done. taking a look at education in maryland's public schools. a new report released gives maryland schools, a d plus. this comes from the national council on teacher equality working to ensure that every child as an effective teacher it gives low marks to maryland from everything from well prepared teacher and retaining

teachers and a teacher pool. you can find more information on this on abc2news.com click on the slide show here and it's the first story. and inside the story, you can click on national council of teacher quality and it will bring up the entire website and you can read about the entire report. it's about 170 pages long. america's public school teachers are seeing their generations old tenure protections in general dixx the changes are happening as teacher evaluations are being based on performance and the same goes for layoffs rather than based on seniority. they're being based on performance. schools in howard county are turning the folks to us finances, even for kids as young as elementary schools. they are working together to help students learn the importance of financial planning. the official signing of the partnership will be today at

the sheraton columbia shouldn't. -- student. they're putting students to worth, and fourth and fifth graders will be trained as bank tellers. and now over to lynnette. let's talk about the weather pattern because we're still under the control of this area of high pressure. this will start to slide off to the east as we go through the day. you see the clouds trying collapse around it and once it slides to the east, we'll get more clouds in here and we're waiting for the next storm to move in here from the south and west. and it will do so as we make our way into tomorrow and friday. i'm not going rule out maybe a couple sprinkles early tomorrow morning and maybe mixing with a little bit of freezing rain. but that should stay off to the west. so things should be okay as we make our way into tomorrow morning. future trend picking up when that is going on here. i'll put this into motion. you see that while we get this

in here through the day and linger into your friday morning, by lunchtime tomorrow, we can see showers work their way. the bulk of the rain doesn't get in here till your drive time home. and we'll see more rain in here as we make our way into the morning time on friday. so we have two days that we'll be seeing wet weather. so make sure that you grab your rain gear for that. today you will not need that rain gear whatsoever. the temperature coming in at 46 degrees and it will be a little cooler but that is because we'll be starting a little cooler for today. yesterday we made it up to 59 degrees. 4 degrees for tonight and it will be cloudy and it won't be as chilly and tomorrow that temperature coming in around 46 degrees once again. we'll see periods of rain and have the light southerly breeze. that is what is looks like for the seven-day forecast. we're going to be 53 degrees and mild as we head into friday. back to the traffic report. no fog out there this morning.

no fog and we're off to a great start we have minor incidents going on. 95 on the northeast side. you may see crews removing a stalled car out of the road way. otherwise, as you continue to the for the mchenry tunnel, you're pretty good. here's a live view at maryland 175. all quiet for you there. and i-97, state police say the northbound lanes are open and moving well. we did have an earlier collision there without injury and you're trouble free on 97 north to 695. american civil engineering student in seria and the family is worried never he made it past the security check point. remember the patient that received the heart and the heart falls out. they're trying to get the patient to the er. and the patient that received the start now speaking out and we'll hear from her as we look around the world when "good

morning maryland" continues in a bit.

cruise ship captian that have wrecks cruise ship is speaking out. her husband is speaking out and said that, quote, he's not a monster. the ship ran aground and capsized off a tuscan island in january 16 people so star been confirmed dead. -- so far have been confirmed dead. a family of a college student are trying to find out what happened when he disappeared from a checkpoint in syria. he was detained at the airport with his younger brother.

the family has not heard anything in three weeks. >> we're really concerned about his safety and his health. we don't have any contacts with him so we're concerned about his condition. >> the family believe that the 21-year-old is lock add way in a syrian jail. he had one run-in with the syrian authorities but released after a month in jail no charges filed at that time. and a 28-year-old woman in mexico that received a heart drop from the medics ice caller is now walking and talking after making it through surgery. the woman said that she is happy. she is one of three patients in the country to receive a heart transplant this year. and people in india now have an easier way to communicate with the prime minister. he now has a twitter account managed by his team in the office. they will update people on his

activities and engagements. he had more than 12,000 followers in the first 24 hours. abc 2 news is work on finding new information on a deadly hit-and-run in terry hall. the driver that the investigators are trying to track down at this hour. no bailout, no handout and no copouts. an american built to last consists of the responsibility of everybody. >> how he plans to pass last night's agenda and take it across the country today. if you park in baltimore city, you may have to pay a little more. and now penn station says the price may go up. how much you'll have to pay if you pay by the month or the hour.

"good morning maryland." we're dealing with some dry times. no type of fog this morning that is good news. and it's not that cold out this morning. it's seasonable. some ears not even dealing with that but right now maryland's most powerful radar is dry and it will stay that way through the day. we'll get more clouds in here. but we'll remain dry. so here are the temperature takes want to show this morning n aberdeen, 36, and glen burnie 37 and bel air 37. and once again, just to give you a perspective, we should be at 24 degrees for the low temperatures. not so bad. as we look at our hour-by-hour forecast, we will be seasonable, a little bit above average coming in around 46 degrees. i don't think we'll get as warm as yesterday. we came in close to 60 if we got more sunshine in here, then the twoches go up and i -- the temperatures would go up. and i agree with that today. the 46 will be more in