appears to have the early lead coming up. and those stories and breaking news out of baltimore city. as we continue on this tuesday january 31st good morning. i am charley crowson and let's head over to lynette charles with a calm forecast. >> reporter: good morning -- into good morning. we are dealing with -->> good morning. we are dealing with mild temperatures. we are coming to the end of january. but i have to say hello, juneary because 60ats the end -- 60s at the end of january. it will get slightly warmer going through tomorrow and showers will push in as well. so i am trying to get as much use out of this graphic as possible. you are heading out to school to work and we are a little chilly but the temperatures are above average into annapolis around 34 degrees. glen burnie more of the same and arnold at 44 degrees. we will have the wind out of the southwest and that's going to bum. temperatures up. right now, as you head out and about you won't need any rain gear. because maryland's most powerful radar is dry.

let's check of the traffic with angela. good morning. you've been pretty busy this morning. >> reporter: good morning. and that's correct. we have been quite busy still dealing with an accident that's going to have a closure for us all morning long. joppa and old harford shut down with a downed pole and wires due to a earlier collision. the accident on the side southbound 95 at pulaski highway. just a brief slow down with onlooker delays there. traveling on 259, bw parkway no troubles as well as on 29. that's moving without any delay or trouble. here's a live look at 695 and wilkins avenue traveling in catonsville. police are in the final clearing stages of a fender bender on the inner loop at i- 95. back to the breaking news. a suspect who is reportedly linked to overnight shooting got into a fight with a police officer and stole a number of cars. one of them being a police squad car. we have been on the story since 4:30. this happened 695 and washington boulevard.

and linda so is where that chase ended and joins us live from west patapsco with the latest. >> reporter: minutes ago we saw two tow trucks arrive here at the police-involved shooting. we are in the 3400 block of annapolis road. we counted about five police cars here. a handful of police officers investigating this bizarre police involved shooting. it started last night in the city with a shooting. we are told the suspect ran off. a baltimore county officer later tried to pull that suspect over on 695 for a traffic violation. the suspect led police on a brief chase. the officer persued and the suspect eventually ditched his car and the officer caught up with him on foot. the two got into a fight and the suspect, we are told,overpowered the cop and stole the police officer's car and drove off, and later, abandoned the police car and stole another car and this is where he ended up. again, we are in the 3400 block

of annapolis road patapsco village shopping center. we are told police officers caught up with the suspect here in the parking lot. the suspect was shot at least once taken to shock trauma where we are waiting to get the latest on his condition. we don't know that yet but we did talk to an eyewitness a cabdriver who was in the area. he says that he heard several shots fired, saw a lot of police officers on the scene. there were a lot of helicopters, but, again, we are here live in the 3400 block of annapolis road. we are told a suspect who led police on a chase eventually stole a police car stole another car and ended here in the shopping center. he was shot by police at least once taken to shock trauma. two tow trucks arrived on scene. we have a hand full of officers about 5 police cars still here. we will stay on top of this and bring you the latest at 6. live in southwest baltimore, linda so, abc2 news. a new way to learn in an

unlikely environment a live look into the mobile learning lab we will go live to education reporter sherrie johnson. you are getting a lesson today? >> reporter: i certainly am and a interesting one at that. we are here at reginald lewis high school in northeast baltimore. students are using a mobile learning lab to further their education. now for the first time mobile learning devices will actually be brought into the classroom. five classes will use 30 new galaxy samsung tablets powered by verizon wireless 4g lte network for lessons in spanish 1, 2 and ap spanish. right now you are looking at students up bright and early already working on those tablets. verizon wireless learning lab bus will continue weekly visits to the school. and right now, we have danielle who is the assistant principal here. tell me how this mobile lab is

helping students. >> the verizon wireless partnership allows our students to achieve their goals and dreams. it makes college tangible for them and prepares them all the way from advanced placement spanish to the sats. >> reporter: wow. and dr. wilson can you tell us some of the changes and conference you are making? >> well, we are trying to make education exciting here many we part nerd with verizon wireless and partnered with morgan state university. mobile learning laboratory makes learning so exciting. and it makes reg nall lewis high school the number one public high school in baltimore city. >> all right. thank you both so much for joining us. and, of course, coming up at 6, we will talk to students and askwhat they think about this mobile learning lab. but coming up at 9 a.m. this morning, they have an open house to show the community all they are learning here. reporting live in northeast baltimore, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. a new plan to move an entire grade level from the

students into the ridge rouxton bidding has -- ruxton building has parents nervous. west towson was designed for 451 and the projection shows the number could grow beyond 700 students within 10 years. that's why moving the class is so appealing to the county. parents heard the plan for the first time and they heard it last night. >> we were told our building would not be touched and here it is several years later, and you want this -- you are breaking a promise that was made. >> they are concerned about the impact of losing classroom space and other resources. parents say they have enough to worry about and they hope the school system can find another solution. have you seen the boots on your kids? and have you seen them in the closet. one school in pennsylvania say they are no longer to wear them on school grounds. uggs are now banned. they are popular and warm and they are illegal.

sort of. they started a uggs ban because students are hiding cell phones in the boots and sneaking them into class. only way around that is to stop wearing them. if you bring them to the school you will leave them in the locker and you walk around with chuck taylors on. elsewhere the dentist who admitted to using paper clips instead of stainless steel post in root canals has intentenced to more than two years in prison. all but a year of that jail time has been suspend. michael clare is from maryland and his dentistry license was suspended in 2006. he was shackled and handcuffed to begin serving time right away. and a new york woman has been charged with swindling more than a million dollars from her employer. the catholic archdiocese. her home was raided and art pieces and records and clothes were found. the da says the woman built the archdiocese for nonexistent is of and channeled the money intoaccounts she controlled. and from the costa

concordia in italy and to the states the cruise liners are in the state. liberty of sea. 47-year-old mother from massachusetts died from a fall on that ship. she fell down the stairs and hit her head and died shortly after. the ship is currently docked in fort lauderdale, florida. and the man in arkansas is under arrest found with weapons and ammunition in his car. he was sitting right outside the u.s. district attorney's office when he was found. he said he was there to talk to the u.s. attorney about government corruption. he was -- he was arrested and never had that conversation. three teens lost their lives in a horrific wrong way crash in the weekend and you will heart calls to 911 by drivers who saw the car traveling along i-97. also, why lawyers for an abortion doctor wants the charges thrown out. details coming up after we get back from new york and a check of this morning's tech bites. >> reporter: in today's tech bites, several tech giants are taking a stand against online

scams. google, facebook and yahoo and mike role soft are among the companies that have joined together -- microsoft are among the companies that have joined together to weed out fraudulent e-mails before they can cause problems. they hope it will be a industry standard. and in today's video game review, a star wars the old republic. online multiplayer game brings social networking to the star wars franchise. dan being aerman praises it for combining the old and new. >> the timeline is different and you run into new characters and new planets and cities. but there's just enough familiarness to it that you are not going to feel like you are entering a new universe and have to learn everything from scratch. >> reporter: star worst re-- wars restales for $60 it be -- star wars retales for 60 and requires a monthly fee. those ruer tech bites, i am -- those are your tech bites, i am rob nelson.

now "good morning maryland." and so you in the market for a new car. how about president obama's car. now up for sale on ebay a 20 a 5 model that would sell for around -- 2005 model that would sell for 20,000 dollar. 300 c or powerful v-8 engine the starting price on ebay lynette charles grab your checkbook. it's a cool one million dollars. your thoughts. >> i. [audio not understandable] >> you don't want the car? >> for the car the singing is free. >> you find a million dollars just a bit steep? >> just a bit. you think a little bit? spending of steep temperatures this morning, not so -- speak of steep, temperatures this morning, yes we are cold this morning. especially in towson. 24 right there. but baltimore coming in at 30 degrees and we should be at 25

now for this time of the year. and as we look around a and -- annapolis we are dealing with 41 there and into annapolis and 43 in edgewood this morning. we are seeing more of the same. the 40s in chestertown and also into centerville of the northeast coming in right around 37 degrees. and the satellite and radar not picking up on anything this morning. we will see plenty of sunshine out there. and a few clouds trying to move in. but, lots of sunshine to be had. make sure get out and enjoy because that temperature will soar into the 60s for this afternoon. let's go over to angela with a check of the traffic good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are suggest rich morned avenue or seder hill road, aller knits instead of joppa road. we have the closure at joppa and old harford with the accident. in the meantime, we are looking pretty good around most other areas. a check of the harrisburg expressway, no early delays to report there. just usual building volume. also off a to a quiet start for motorists on u.s. 50. traffic flow on 50 in annapolis

passing and if you plan to take mta this morning, lines are moving on time. we are learning more about a weekend crash that claimed the lives aof three people a car headed -- lives of three people a car heading the wrong direction hit another. three teens died on impact. yesterday anne arundel county police released 911 tapes from drivers who saw the car going the wrong way. >> i just saw the lights and they are like and wait a minute he is on my side of the highway. >> counselors were made available to teachers and student at meade and is sevenna park high schools where the teens graduated. the 55-year-old victim in the other car has been identified as terry davis of severna park. it's not known if speeding or alcohol may have contributed to that crash. tense moments at bwi last night after a small jet veered off the runway. coming up, the latest on the incident and how the passengers are doing this morning. that's straight ahead.

also, corinne. >> reporter: bat tolt finish line as -- battle to the finish line. find out which gop candidate may have the early lead coming up after the break.

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maryland." polls are is a minutes away from opening in florida. as the gop primary in the sunshine state could be a make or break moment for former house perk newt gingrich. -- speaker newt gingrich. corinne redman is standing by with a preview. >> reporter: it's primary day in florida. latest polls show mitt romney has a double digit lead over newt gingrich. florida awards all 50 delegates to the winner. newt gingrich spent last hours of campaigning trying to get voters to come to his side and romney is counting he will have a huge night winning the primary. in the past week romney and his allies hammered gingrich with nearly 13.8 million dollars on attack ads in florida nearly 4 times what gingrich and his supporters spent and he is not spending as much money gingrich continues to blast romney on the campaign trail leading up to today's primary. >> why would anybody in the establishment think that a

massachusetts moderate which is a liberal by republican standards, why would they think that he is going to be be be able to tee bait barack obama. >> that's usually a indication you think you are going to lose. >> reporter: more than 600,000 people voted. polls in florida close at 7 tonight. corinne redman, abc to news. the coauthor of the song eye of the tiger suing newt gingrich telling him stop playing my song at campaign events. owned by frank sullivan of the band survivor you remember it from rocky fame filed the suit in federal court in chicago monday. it claims newt gingrich has been using it at events since around 2009 without the band's permission. there's no response from the gingrich campaign. this could be the year of the woman on capitol hill. there could be a wave of women now in the lawmakers heading to the senate for the house in november. this would reverse 2010 election trend when the number of female represent testifies dipped for the first time since

19 -- representatives dipped for the first time since 1978. there are ten running. tore more on democracy 2012 head to abc2news.com and click on the political section where you can find all the information you need to see. and this morning, lawyers from one of the two doctors charged with the motor of -- murder of five fetuses wants the charges thrown out. the lawyers say the charges should be dropped because the fetus died in new jersey not maryland. they had the patients drive to the cecil county clinic to finish the procedures. a small jet will neat to be -- need to be inspected after crashing off bwi last night. two people on board were not hurt. the general aviation jet went off the runway and went into the grass and caused quite a stir out at bwi. time for a check of the forecast with lynette. now maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the

forecast certified most accurate by weatherate. >> good morning everyone. we are dealing with a nice day on tap. it's calm out there and nice and peaceful. the wind very light right now out of the southwest. and into baltimore at 3 miles an hour. and dc coming in about 7-mile- an-hour sustained wind. more of the same to easton right now. wind chester around 5. so, the weather pattern high pressure building in across the area it will slide off towards the east. we will warm things up once it does that going into the afternoon for today and also into tomorrow. so if you like the milder temperatures, you are going to like this forecast. future trend not picking up a whole lot. a few clouds will try to get in going through the day. but lots of sunshine to be had. and then by tomorrow morning, well, we have a chance for a shower in the forecast. make sure to grab the rain gear then. but you won't need it before then. you will need the sun shades. for today, temperatures 63 and warmer the going through

tonight temperatures around 43 and cool but not cold and the clouds will be on the increase. by tomorrow we do have the chance for the showers but it will be even warmer coming in right around 64 degrees. and here's the check of the 7- day forecast. we will stay above average as we go even into the weekend and even next week so that outlook is not dropping off. let's go over to angela with a check of your traffic. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we have mentioned the closure at joppa and old harford. the beltway is not looking too good through parkville carney region. no reports around perring or harford road. so you may want to take that instead of joppa road. 795 southbound looking pretty good from owings mills to the beltway. more cars joining you southbound drive on 29. also on route 1 washington boulevard and so far, not a whole lot of volume heading downtown on a i-95 as we look live at 95 and i-395. charley over to you. tax day is april 17th this year. but it's not too early to get

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news time 5:55 and five things to know today maryland officials will be gathering to talk about free tax service for low income families. cash campaign aims to help more than 9,000 low income families file their tacks and get the maximum refund -- taxes and get the maximum refund alive. it takes place this morning at 10. michelle obama is leaving for the golden state scheduled to deliver remarks at a democratic national committee session in los angeles. she is going to do camera time in tinsel town and will appear on the tonight show with jay will beo promoting her let's move campaign. -- leno promoting her let's

move campaign. . apple android use kers put in the zip code and get polluted and ozone levels for the area ranging from good to moderate to very unhealthy to hazardous. and thousands of journalists from around the world are converging for the interview opportunity for the patriots and giants all of this leading into superbowl 46. this is a big event as well. media day. for the first time, nfl is allowing 5,000 fans to hang out in the stand at lucas oil stadium and watch everything unfold. the fight one state is battling over drug tests for residents who received public assistance. law makers are considering and why a group is is saying this legislation is unconstitutional. also, pink slim. or slime. whatever you want to call it. it's in mcdonald's a filler the fast-food joint will no longer put into the burgers. we will tell you why. and also some cities snow better than others. apparently so. one city that is receiving a

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