what the social worker reported hearing inside the house. and controversial flyers sent home with students has parents not too happy. and the trial could begin today for george hughley. i'm megan pringle. >> and i'm charlie crouse. weather going to be a big story today, late in the afternoon especially. let's go over to lynette charles. good morning. what we have in store quiet times ahead. we have some clouds out there. but a winter weather does go in effect for carroll county and lunchtime for baltimore county and we're also seeing harford and other counties shaded the blue area and that lingers till 10:00 p.m. tonight. we have wintry weather that will work its way in here. we're nice and drive if you have things to do this morning, dropping the kids off or going to the bus stop, make sure that you do bundle them up. it will be on the cold side,

especially in garrett county. stevensville 35 and we'll get that snow. i'll detail that coming up. but first a check of your traffic with angela. good morning. baltimore county police and crews are still on the scene at ricetown road at straw hat road. we're closed there because of wires down and an accident reported in the essex community. be prepared for slowdowns there. and if you make the drive on 95 into downtown, not a problem making your way to 395. this is a look north of belt way. and we continue to move well. if you're traveling on the west side of 695, here's a look at liberty road. the left side starting to pack in on the outer loop lanes and the top side sluggish traffic for you as you make your drive

from harford road to providence. over to you. new developments this morning in the case of a washington state man who killed himself and his two young sons in an explosion. john i don't know is here with more on the newly released 911 call. >> reporter: west first 911 calls before sunday's explosion why josh powell killed himself and two sons in washington state. the 911 calls include the caseworker who just dropped off powell's sons and he locks her out of the house and she called 911. you notice the sense of panic bullying by the social worker. she senses trouble but can't seem to convince the dispatcher of that. take a listen. >> how long will it be? >> they have to respond to emergency and life-threatening situations first. the first -- >> this could be life- threatening. he went to court on wednesday and he didn't get his kids back and -- i'm afraid for their

lives. >> has he threatened the lives of children previously? >> i have no idea. >> we'll have the first available deputy contact you. >> reporter: this is all also very hard to hear. autopsies showed they died from carbon monoxide poison, but the little boys also had hatchet marks on their bodies. 6:33. a close call for you to tell you about. a car catches on fire in front of a fried chicken restaurant in texas. the driver got out before things got ugly. she could have easily died having been trapped in there. she just bought a meal and noticed heavy smoke coming from the hood and she got out within minutes. they were able to put out the flames. a public memorial service being held in chicago entering soul train producer don

cornelius. reverend jessie jackson is expected to speak. they dan autopsy and ruled that he did shoot himself. he was 57 years old when -- 75 years old when he died last week. the empire state runup takes off today. it is all wait to the observetory deck. it will raise awareness for cancer research. big game has come and gone. and now what do you with all of the leftovers? >> and how they're taking that food and putting to great use. what new numbers are those are choosing to date and marry their coworkers. have you done it? some say they have. "good morning maryland" continues in just a bit. 3q

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6:37 right now. and it seems more and more ever you are finding love at the office. office romance survey finds 38% of workers say they have date a coworker at least once. and about a third of coworkers said that the romances led to marriage. and it found that women were more likely to date someone higher up in the company than men. one in five people polled said they've actually date the boss. if you cannot find love at work, maybe move into one of these cities. yahoo travel comes out with the list for the best cities for dating. austin, texas comes in at number one. and half the population is single there. if austin doesn't do it for you, boston comes in second,

chicago and then miami and new orleans. i think miami would be tough to date in. >> how does new orleans make every list in the top five, good and bad. >> something for everybody. there you go. super bowl parties now over and left behind thousands of pounds of unused food not going to waste. they will prepare them for nutritious meals. the group receive bad 37,000 pounds of food left over from a variety of super bowl events. some is going into the freezer. and others is getting prepped right away. >> it will go to shelters, senior centers and children's programs and low income daycare centers and after school programs and we provide the meals all free of charge. >> each pound represents enough to feed 1 hungry person. still a lot to get to this morning on "abc 2 news."

>> stay with us. abc 2 to go before you head out the door. thousands of these anti-gay flyers are being sent home with students. and some parents can believe what they say. and the penn state sex abuse scandal shocked the nation. and find out what lawmakers are doing today to toughen child abuse reporting laws. getting through airport security could be a lot ease yermt a bill that will be -- easier. a bilk introduced today to help you get -- a bill bill being incident dutied today to help you -- being introduced today to help you get to your flight faster. we'll have an update on your delays coming up next.

this is your abc 2 news to go. the weather will be the big story today. so let's get over to lynette charles. we have the school bus

forecast for you. temperatures in the 30s and cloudy and chilly setting up for the storm that is moving this afternoon. the winds out of the east at five to ten miles an hour. and the satellite and radar picking up on the clouds out there right now and we can start to see some of the storm push nothing ohio and also into west virginia getting some of the rain there and that's what we'll start out with as we go into the afternoon. and it will mix over to snow by 4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon. and it will be a dicey commute home. so speaking of the commute home, let's talk to angela right now. and she has a check of your traffic. we got to get out this morning. and if you're heading out, normally you take ricetown road and you're going to have trouble this morning. and we're suggesting owings mills boulevard. and we have a closure on ricetown road at straw hat road with wires down. in the meantime, around the beltway, we're looking at our morning congestion out there for the rush hour. this is harford road and the north side deslay is going to extend over to providence road.

and if you travel through pikesville and wood lawn, some slow spots making the past liberty road. and this is live at howard and martin luther king, jr. boulevard. supporters of proposition 8 which bans same-sex marriage they're going ask the supreme court to overturn the ruling from the supreme court. gay marriage can't resume in the state till the deadline passes for supporters of the ban to appeal. and an attorney for a christian legal aid group they hope to defend the band and no court should presume to redefine marriage. governor o'malley said that the ruleing is a victory for same-sex marriage. and he hopes that will be influential to maryland's house of delegates. it failed in the house here last year amid religious and

family value concerns. outrage over anti-gay flyers sent home with thousands of high school students. linda is here with what the flyers say. this is sparking a lot of controversy. >> reporter: here is what the flyer looks like. and we posted a link on our website. it says that no one is born gay and that homosexuality is a choice and students should not label themselves or others at a young age. they were sent home with the students from einstein high school last week. the group believes that homosexuality can be cured and it encourages students to seek help if they have unwanted same sexual tractions. they say they have the right to send home literature fewer times a year. and -- a few times a year. and the parents and students

appalled. >> my reaction was to tear in half and throw it in the trash. >> and the flyers were distributed at four other high schools. 38,000 flyers -- about 8,000 flyers were sent out. authorities in harford county said they have found a baby in a dumpster. they got a call last night on the 800 block of sable wood road in bel air where a mother gave birth to a stillborn baby. they did find a body in the dumpster. there's no word on whether the police have found the mother. opening arguments are expected today in the trial of a uva lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend. there are 28 potential jurors and they're expected to return today in the case of george hughley. and there are 12 that are expected to be chosen with three alternatives. george hughley has pled not guilty to murder.

it stems from the may 2010 death of yeardley love, a native of crockesyville. you can find all the latest information on our website, abc2news.com on the home page. a hospital employee convicted in the stabbing death his supervisor in suburban county is scheduled to be sentenced. the supervisor was found stabbed to death in the basement of the office. sherrie johnson is here following the latest developments on the penn state sex abuse scandal against jerry sandusky. >> reporter: new details this morning in the penn state sex abuse scandal. pennsylvania prosecutors are asking that jerry sandusky indo bail condition. prosecutors say that several people have seen the former penn state coach watching children in a schoolyard from the back porch of his home.

jerry sandusky is charged with molesting young boys and is under house arrest right now. and his lawyers say that safety concerns are totally unfounded. and in annapolis, senate bill 140 would make is a criminal penalty to not report child abuse. the conference starts at noon today at lawyers mall in annapolis. supporters of the bill will speak at today's news conference, including a prosecutor and mother that talk about people not doing anything even if they know about sexual abuse of a child. the archdiocese of baltimore is fighting the white house in offering berth control and now the white house may be willing to compromise on the mandate for schools and hospitals to offer free birth control. they are working on ways to address the issue and respect religious beliefs that ban contraception. they have not released any detail on it yet.

fda is looking into the shippingberg university pennsylvania for having a vending machine for planned b. we told you about this yesterday. it can prevent pregnancy if taken soon after sex. you can get it without prescription. it's usually kept behind a pharmacy counter. officials say that the access to the machine is restricted. five things that you need to know. the tsa and the department of homeland security will announce an expansion of the government today for prescreening. it's for more travelers to get through airports faster. a missouri teen that confessed to murdering a nine- year-old could be sensing today. -- sentenced today. she pled guilty to murdering the 9-year-old in 2009. the prosecutor is asking that

she receive life and her attorney said that she is mentally disturbed. rick santorum pulled out a hat trick today winning colorado and minnesota and missouri. the labor federation in france has launched a strike for the first time in years. they are expected to strike till noon today. a new book hits store shelves today and it's about an affair between the affair of jf kennedy and an intern and the aftermath. it hits store shelves today. baltimore ravens will be without -- next year. he is retiring after 11 seasons. this comes two weeks after said

that he was come looking forward to coming back one more year. and last season he backed up ray rice. this season he did eclipse to 10,000-yard mark for his career and to become the 26th back in the nfl history to accomplish that feat. danny clyburn junior was shot and killed in his hometown in north carolina. his friend turned himself into authorities and is charged with murder. he played for baltimore in the late 1990s. nora roberts donated a hundred thousand dollars to mcdaniel college. this is the second year that the college has received funning from her. the grant will support mcdaniels minor in writing in fiction. and she received an honorary degree from mcdaniel in 2006. baltimore's inner harbor is

about to get a little spicier. spicemaker mccormick is opening their first store. it's back where they started. the shop will offer food, family friendly activities and a lot of information about where their spies come from. it will -- spices come from. the town council voted to allow horseback riding on the beach. riders will have to pay $50 per horse to ride. and you can way $20 for a daily permit. riding will be loud from 27th street -- be allowed from the 27th street. and riders will have to clean up after their horses. it's a $500 fine if you don't. >> grocery store bag is not going cut it. >> no. naturally formed ice sickles on this waterfall in china, the water from the

mountains and the streams freeze almost immediately when it hits the riverbank. and a lot of freezing video. we showed you switzerland earlier. in russia is five degrees. not so bad here. not. speaking of the snow, well we're seeing this area of low pressure that will slide through the area. and with it, it will bring the snow as we go in through about 2:00, 3:00. i'll show you the exact time in a second. but this morning, things looking pretty good. we'll have the clouds out there. they'll linger and things will get better on the become side of this but this goes into motion. and you can see this we'll get the snow in here, not so much accumulating on the roadways because it's just been too warm. but we could see a some accumulations on the grassy surfaces and your car tops as well. the commute home is what i'm

concerned with. we'll see refreezing as we go into the overnight. take it easy out there. and we're looking pretty good as we start to see more sunshine in the forecast. in the meantime, you want to know what is happening for today in terms of the snow totals. i have them for you. i'm thinking about up to an inch of some snow around baltimore even into the city that is possible. and then the further to the north and west you go, could you see maybe two to three inches, plus in those areas and down south around the eastern shore, mainly just plain rain around the washington d.c. area. maybe a wet snowflake missing n but we'll see rain across that area. 38 for today and tonight, the temperature coming in around 30 degrees. and we'll get the gradual clearing. tomorrow's temperature around 48 degrees and we will see your seven-day forecast that brings us colder air as we go into the week. and now a check of your

traffic. a new accident reported on stevenson lane. but the biggest traffic headache remains the closure on ricetown road and straw hat road. we suggest owings mills boulevard and 795. not too bad there. just your normal delays. a little bailout traffic in addition to that if you're traveling around the beltway, that is where we're seeing the biggest problems. no problems on # -- on 95 north of the beltway. you see a lot of brake lights and we're well below posted speed heading over to providence road. >> so the weather could become threatening after lunchtime? >> yes. it will be a quick move, something like we saw on saturday. >> which was really pretty. >> and we spoke with mark jones from the mta, a good day to take the mta and talk void any problems this -- and you could

avoid any problems on the roadways. >> exactly. we'll be back with more news, weather and traffic in 25 minutes.