warm shot tomorrow? let's find out now with wyatt. >> reporter: when you consider the average is 42, we will still be above average tomorrow but not as warm as today. 64 though still this evening. get out and still enjoy it. take the dog for a walk. we are still in the mid60's and there is cooler air coming in in york and points just to the north and west. look at the highs. 64 easton. these were not quite records because they were 75. satellite radar picture showing clouds rolling in. month precipitation. chance for morning showers and more on the week ahead coming up. >> thank you. let's get to the story you will only see here on abc2. a story we have been covering for months. today a major hearing against

the man accused in a massive paving scam went on without him. we were allowed to take our cameras inside the courtroom here. at the hearing brought by the attorney general. the agency claims that he was operating a paving business without a license for 284 days in the state. offering no estimates or low ball estimates. the state said at least 16 people were hit and some charged as much as 20 to $30,000. >> very loudly i said this cannot be -- the first time he showed up and. >> you see him? no show. a no show in court but the case moved on without him. a hearing judge will hear the case and issue a decision in the future. police say a fight between teens was a misunderstanding. police say a 15-year-old will not face charges in the beating

of another teen. the 15-year-old beat an 18-year- old so badly he suffered an eye injury, had to be rushed to the hospital. police say the victim was a former student at broad neck and he started the fight shortly after school let out. thehe victim has been release from the hospital. tonight police are blanketing a well to do neighborhood after a man robbed a pair of women outside a popular restaurant. we have more on stepped up security tonight. >> reporter: they came to the park for a taste of [inaudible] but left with a bad taste after being mugged. >> anywhere you go you want to feel safe. especially for women, you know you are coming out to dine in a nice restaurant and you come out and somebody trying to rob you. so its alarming. >> reporter: the suspects told them to give them their purse. >> reporter: one of the victims

was helping the other get into the car when they were confronted. >> a suspect approaches them from behind and indicated he had a gun and demanded to get one of their purses, he grabbed a purse out of the vehicle, the second victim struggled the suspect and then he ran away in fear. >> reporter: response to the robbery the police are told community leaders they will blanket the park with uniformed and plains clothes officers. in an area that is unfamiliar with crime baltimore city police have lived up to their word. we have seen as many as half a dozen marked units circulate around the area. >> my office is in the building. soy leave every night and i come in every morning and i see -- i think easy target. >> reporter: less than 24 hours after the robbery the shopping center took action putting more lighting in the side parking lot where it happened. jeff hagr. >> police are encouraging you to be aware of your surroundings and to call the

police if you see anything suspicious. they arrested a robbery suspect at a park in that neighborhood after getting a call. sheriff doesn't want you to got your state tax refund check if you have an outstanding warrant. he is asking the county to back his idea. if the sheriff gets his way it would be the first in the state to do this. the sheriff said with holding the refunds would encourage people facing minor crimes to clear them up. they have 8,000 outstanding warrant was half of them outside the county. they wouldn't be covered. to the continuing coverage and efforts to pass a same sex marriage bill. today a version of the bill was introduced in the house and the bill has 56co sponsors including the house speaker. yesterday a hearing was held on the version of the bill and last year the senate passed a similar bill but it never came to the vote in the house. and sporting a buton that

said dignity the governor gave his state of the city address today. don harrison said his message is that everything has a cost. >> reporter: most of this administration. >> reporter: the governor laid out a familiar message today. >> i have asked you to make the right decisions and often times the very tough decisions. >> reporter: one of those tough decisions is a gas tax. some legislators say its wishful thinking to ask people to pay more. >> very had a business owner already in -- frederick county say he has ten trucks for his business and he is about three minutes the pennsylvania line. he will go there to fill up this is just a reality that this hurts the state. >> reporter: the other man agenda for the governor, is to legalize same sex marriage. >> it is not right and it is not just that the children of

gay couples should have lesser protections than the children of other families in our state. >> reporter: this is likely to take place in the house of delegates with much rhetoric, some think it's unlikely to pass. >> out there work hard to try to get people to give up their conscious beliefs on this and to get the vote. they don't have the votes. >> reporter: the bill started off in a senate committee yesterday. they are expected to vote on that bill some sometime next week. i'm don harrison. >> a senator said the governor is relying to much on tax increases. in rebutting the state of the state he said the proposals are nothing more than the same tax and spend policy that have showed economic growth. a baltimore state delegate proposing the creation of a missing children's plan for the state. the bill is aimed to improve the cooperation between state

agencies including more research for police and it would establish a dna database to help identity bodies and resolve missing person's cases. it's an investigation in the making impacts all of us. how much do you know and trust your doctor? we have a report that may have you asking your doctor a lot of questions. >> reporter: it took a tragedy to get a family to start asking those questions. they lost a mother and a wife following her plastic surgery and in the years after the death learned shocking information about her doctor. tonight, the first part of our three part look into bad medicine in mare maryland. janet died three days after plastic surgery. it took years for the doctor who operated to finally be disciplined by the board. >> time passes and you know

you heal a little bit. and things start to be a memory and five-years later you get the thing from the doctors. >> reporter: tonight why they say janet's doctor shouldn't have had the chance to operate on her and their fight today the system that lets that doctor and other doctors continue to practice even when they face serious allegations, for things like sexual misconduct, drug abuse or play age role in the death of a patient. abc 2news. >> all right. all new for you, the fire department investigating a manhole explosion in the northwest part of town. happened in park heights. around 11:30. nobody was hurt. hazmat crews were called? . the atlantic sturgeon declared a endangered species. the fish was once bountiful but

it's population has been depleted by fishermen seeking it's caviar. they say before 18904 was 180,000 that spawned in the delaware. it's believed to be less than 300 now and now officials will work to determine a way to protect their habitat. a brand new school here in baltimore county already run out of space and one solution has angered parents of another school. why one plan to solve current and future over crowding involves moving students to especial needs school right next door. and we should worry about having enough shelf space to add another super bowl trophy but we have to set this one out. >> now to record breaker out at pwi but not far from it. 70 degrees. 75 the old record from 2002. we guarantee 67 today.

three degrees off. i don't think anyone is complaining. the chance for rain coming in by dawn. we talk about this southern rain maker when we come back.

. you're watching the station that works for you. abc 2news at six. >> it's the last buton, here we are on the hill here today. going over to raleigh a tonight. we want to go get a grilled cheese at the grilled cheese company. that's great. walk down the street in beautiful federal hill. wyatt will have a look at the forecast. so did you go out and snow shovel? did you buy that? probably not. if you were like most people

you found some way to enjoy the weather. it was a great day to spend money on anything other than winter stuff. people eating outside. happy to set up tables and chairs. a lot of people played golf today. here we are at clifton park and the golfer was lined up before they opened this morning. for a lot of people, getting ready to spend for some snow money on summertime things right now. >> work on my game and pick up some pointers, i'm a golf teacher but i'm hear learning from a master. you get free lessons on a sunny day in february. >> i want to go next door, we run from one door to the next but it was great to take a walk today. >> and the good weather saving money. the state has barely spent half

of its $36 million for snow removal. why plug drivers and ski slopes are having a bad year. controversy in baltimore. over a proposal to move a grade level of students out of a brand new school into a school that is now used only for special needs children. christian has been following for us. lot of people are talking about this one. >> reporter: yeah. on monday we heard from parents at the school and the fall of 2010 that new school west townsend opened on the grounds of ridge. it was supposed to open over crowding, instead its already over crowded itself and school officials say its projected to get worse and since they were built on the grounds of ridge, the two as you see are next to each other, officials say the best solution to move a grade level from west townsend into ridge's building. that principal said it could work, there is enough space and students would be separate from

ridge student who have disabilities. some parents weren't happy to hear about the proposal. they say they would like to keep ridge the way it is. >> [inaudible] people and are you taking [inaudible] and we are an at risk group. >> reporter: monday's meeting was for ridge parents. tonight at seven school official also meet with parents from west townsend. once again that is 7:00 tonight. we will have more on what happens there tonight at 11. abc 2news. >> now, maryland's most powerful radar and the forecast certified most rack ate accurate by weather rate. >> will we be as warm tomorrow? not quite. 5 by 4:00 tomorrow. this will be above average in the full high temperature could happen just past midnight tonightt. will take a while to cool off. still a pleasant, mild evening.

current temperatures 60 at pwi. winds west northwest. that's indicating a shift 2349 pattern. cooler air will arrive as we go in to the morning hours tomorrow. boy what a fantastic day with near record high temperatures. damascus beautiful blue skies, few passing fair weather includeds but hard to complain this first day of february, great sun, few passing clouds, kent island we shift and -- you can see lots of sun, as you head toward the shore. we could see previous shower around the early morning drive. most of it should say -- stay just south of us. 60 now. have you to love this. a pleasant night out across central and eastern maryland.

the northwest winds, breezy overnight. continue the funnel in cool cooler air but have you to look at and see the higher temperatures which beat yesterday's highs by three to five degrees. 71 downtown on the first day of february 2012. we had 72 in dc. 69 annapolis, on the eastern shore, temperatures in the upper 60s. tomorrow it'll be a cool off of about 15 degrees or so. still an above average, early february day, owings mills 54, i think the numbers just past midnight and again late in the afternoon. the satellite radar view -- all the rain has remained bottled up to the south. looks like this particular cluster will pass pie marely just south of baltimore. some rain will make it in and the lower eastern shore. here is the system approaching, you can see that rain ahead of it. frontal boundary, from there is

cooler air, not dramaticly colder but cooler and into friday and then we will get a reinforcing shot of colder air that's up in canada now. that will drop us in to the 40s for the weekend. how about timing on that rain? looks like it'll stay just south of us unless you are watching from easton, cambridge, lower eastern shore, we could see more significant rains toward the early morning hours and then just a chance for a hit or miss. we clear out and dry out nicely, looks like a sunny situation to kick off the weekend but it'll be cooler. overnight 42, clouds on the increase, scattered showers by dawn, two degree guarantee 55, morning showers possible. dry and cool for friday night. the seven day forecast, again the trend is for cooler weather into the weekend. another shot of cooler air but with an average high of 42, none that have looks bad for february. >> we thought we would have a parade next week. that.

would have been nice. >> over the loss? of course not. ravens owner isn't over it yesterday. ozzie said you fight so hard to get so close and the afc championship. today they said that ray rice and joe aren't going away. don't know about eder matt but he said he can't understand all the criticism of joe. >> most people in sports want to see type a's and joe is solid in the type b camp and i think he will be extremely successful and i think he will have ring suspicion think he has ten years of his prime to show it. i think that he will be reward for his personality in the long run. >> both men said you get better on theo line, receiver and another pass rusher. while the ravens were talking act the end of the year the orioles are getting reddy for theirs to start.

they are busy pack up the locker room at camden and loading moving trucks, take it all down. the spring training home in sarasota. they report in 18 days, rest of the team on 24th. they are looking to avoid their 15th straight losing season. second worsed in all of baseball history. ? carrie fischer in town. she has a one woman show called wishful drinking in which she said she is honest about a lot of her life. this show isn't just her on stage. she gets the audience involved as well. >> it's -- you know because actually the awed, is my partner. if i talk to the best part of them for the best part of me you get people are great and they -- they want to sort of participate and i bring people up on stage and i give them mental illness tests and everybody fails. >> everybody fails.

her show will be at the theater for 15 more shows through february 12th. we will be right back.

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. here is a look at what's coming up tonight at 1. wal- mart shoppers will soon start so notice something missing from their local store.

why the retail giant is getting rid of the store greeter. we will break down the small changes you can make now to save money in the future. the start to an investigation bad medicine. join us for the news tonight. thank you for letting me sit out. >> how did you get here? you sit here until 11? don't move. it'll be a couple hours movement that's all for us. world news is coming up next. we have time for you to share some weather. >> real quick. still a mild night. enjoy the 60s. tomorrow we are in the 50s. it'll be cooler by the weekend. >> all right. you still here? >> still here. haven't moved. >> we will see you tonight. world news is next up here at 6:30.