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yesterday's warm sunny weather, just a reminder that it is february 8th. let's head out to wyatt everhart and how long this is going to stick around. >> we still have light snow coming down. if we can pan down to the road, you see there it's wet right now. despite the snow we're a couple degrees above freezing in baltimore. if you look at the grassy surface, you can see it in the shot that is showing a little bit of accumulation. so it depends on what surface you're looking at. let's show you what's happening. you see a pretty decent band of snow through carroll county,

westminster. temperature wise, wetterling advisories for cecil, harford, northern baltimore and carroll. that will be through 8:00. i want to show you the air temperatures. the freeze line north and west of the city. where we'll have more issues with icy spots on the roads will be places like northern baltimore county and carroll county, above freezing east and southeast of i-95. moving on, i want to show you the reduced visibility, frederick, york. bottom line, more snow showers in the offing. there will be some icy spots by daybreak as temperatures fall below freezing even where the snow has not stuck very well. there will be wet areas that could ice up toward daybreak. we'll talk more about that and how things shape up as we move toward the weekend. that's coming up. this wintery mix has been falling for a couple hours but state officials have been

warning drivers. let's check in with joce sterman. looks like it's slowing down a little bit behind you. >> reporter: that's right. this has started to slow down on this curve. when you're coming up 83, this is a point that's usually a parking lot. the fact that there isn't that much volume says a lot about the fact that people likely heeded at least here, heeded the warning from the state highway administration to go home if you had the option to get off the roads before rush hour begafnlt just as we were standing here preparing for the live shot. we saw two trucks with salt. they were out here overnight doing a little salt prep, to give them a head start that once they got to the evening hours nothing had suck -- stuck. they don't think they'll need

plows. at this point they think it will be a salting operation. as wyatt was saying before, depending on where you look, that's where it will be sticking. we're getting a little bit of stickage on the grassy surfaces, but nothing too bad. live in harford, joce sterman. maryland state law said anyone who suspect child abuse has to report it but there are no penalties. abc2's roosevelt leftwich joins us with more. >> reporter: senate bill 140 would make this more compelling for adults to report abuse. people may have thought there was nothing that they could do but then came penn state and the

system mat tick failure, she said illustrates the need to toughen the law. it was called a crime too heinous to comprehend. a 7-year-old was beaten to death with wounds all over his body, this despite 24 child abuse filed by his teacher and others at the school. when he was moved to another school teachers did nothing and it haunts, her to this point. >> and that no one, not one person questioned their injuries, turned in a report about the injuries. where is our accountability to those children. >> reporter: nothing happened to the adults who did not report

that abuse. 14 years later debra baldwin is dealing with a coach who did not report a referee. >> who's watching them? at any point in time something could happen and nobody's reporting. >> reporter: the penn state case is what some say is a system at tick -- systematic failure. it compels people to speak new chases of child abuse. senate bill 140 or the so-called penn state law would impose criminal penalties and fines and up to a year in jail for those who do not report abuse. >> if you don't report, you're going to have children just like what happened at the university in pennsylvania.

multiple children were sexual abuse sexual abuses -- sexually abused by that same man. >> reporter: jacobs said maryland is one of three states in the nation that does not have criminal penalties for failure to report child abuse chutes. roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. when a father brought his son into:'s hospital in d.c., he was worried that the toddler had fallen out of bed. jamie costello on what was actually wrong. >> reporter: here's how the story goes. dad thought something was wrong but something else was causing his child's pain. the boy was dizzy. as the doctor was asking dad a lot of questions, the dad said i'm suffering from a headache and i'm dizzy.

they decided to call home. nobody answered. then they called a neighbor who found five people knocked out. what the doctor did next probably saved their lives. she got firefighters and ems over there in a hurry. they were put in a hyper bar rick to remove the carbon monoxide from their bloodstream. at last check, the family was doing well. >> we're still checking them. >> reporter: now the ages of the children in the home ranged from a baby to preteen. had the doctor not recognized the signs so quickly, well, we won't think there. they discovered a furnace in the home was broken and that was the cause for the leak. a trip through a fast food drive through came

life-threatening. how the man managed to make it out of this burning car before it was de?ried terrifying moments for a driver.

new video out of texas. she was in drive through lands in -- noticed smoke coming out of her car. she managed to get out safely. in new mexico police caught a drunk driver headed the wrong way. the officer tried to stop the driver who was weaving. eventually he stopped at a nearby gas station and he was arrested. he said he had taken meth earlier in the day. well, the most romantic day of the year is also the most profitable for many businesses. coming up how much financial experts say you will spend next week even if you don't know it yet. he went into super tuesday with the least amount of money in the campaign. rick santorum pulled off three

unlikely wins.

have you booked that reservation for valentine's day yet. we have the details. >> reporter: for some, the most important thing on valentine's day is going out for din are and many couples have a reservation. it can also be the biggest expense but americans, they're willing to spend. 53% of its users plan to book a week ahead. some people are lining up tables for tuesday the 14th but about a quarter are booking for this saturday the 11th, because it's more convenient to go out then. how much is being budgeted for the big date? more than half say they plan on

watching between $100 and $200 on dinner. the survey shows diners in las vegas and new york are most likely to spend big bucks. here's a tip for anyone, ask the restaurant about its menu. lots of places offer a prefix menu. other places offer freebies like champagne or flowers, so it pays to check around town for deals. reporting from new york. all right. weather wise, things are active to say the least. we're tracking some snow across parts of central maryland but also some rain, cold rain mixed with a few flakes, the kind of

stuff that doesn't accumulate at all. north and west, some light accumulations, primarily grassy elevated surfaces clearing through the westminster area of carroll county, through the harford zone where joce sterman is and new freedom line. this is indicated on radar. if you're tracking north toward the state line, certainly some fairly active winter weather there. it's primarily rain and along the immediate chesapeake bay. not to say there aren't flakes. i'm sure there are but it has been rain through much of the afternoon and a few flakes. 36 at bwi. so the column of air is cold enough to support snow. this is melting on contact across much of the baltimore area, points west. this is sticking on the ground. bel air, take a look at our abc2

weather bug. yes, we seat snow come down. it doesn't stick at all. just wet conditions on the roads and the surfaces, which are above freezing. mt. airy, some decent snow coming through here. you can see light accumulations on tree tops. western maryland it has accumulate lad little bit points toward frostburg, not particularly large accumulations. watch as the winter weather advisory, other than that pretty uneventful. so we're less than two miles in baltimore, less therein a half mile toward dulles. you see the freeze line pretty well here. terms of anything sticking or icy areas on the road, no concerns. from baltimore, dulles, south and eastward. go north and west of the i-95 corridor, here we have the possibility of some icy spots

and slick spots in particular toward hagerstown and north toward york. highs even in those areas, those highs were four or five degrees above freezing, so, this, the lack of the snow sticking very well, at least initially at onset. we're getting a little north and west. this will clear out quickly. behind the system there's not much. cooler air will funnel in. could mean icy spots at daybreak even around baltimore and annapolis. as we go toward sun rise, two to three below freezing. that will mean the possibility of icy areas. temperatures dropping. as we go into the day tomorrow, 45. so any a.m. icy spots will melt off quickly. tomorrow night cold and dry. the seven-day forecast showing dry weather in the mid to upper 40s thursday and friday. then we're cool and dry the rest of the weekend. dry toward valentine's day.

back to you. >> thanks a lot, wyatt. in democracy 2012, last night shook things up in the gop race has rick santorum walked away with three unexpected wins in missouri, minnesota and colorado. where do we go from here? >> reporter: rick santorum's hat trick surprised a lot of people. this will give him momentum. santorum said last night they were able to raise a quarter of a million dollars. >> definitely campaigning with the momentum and enthusiasm on the ground. i believe conservatives are beginning to get it we provide the best opportunity to beat president obama. >> reporter: kelly, remember back in south carolina when newt gingrich won and was suggesting that rick santorum drop out of the race because the two might split the ultraconservative

vote. now people are saying that rick santorum might do the same thing for newt gingrich. >> what -- where do we go from here? >> reporter: this is not good for mitt romney it. slows down his momentum and begs the question, what's he going to do next. then we have to tell you what's good for him. his overall delegate count is the highest. he has campaign cash, a strong organization and today he's not holding back. >> senator santorum and speak per gingrich, they are the very republicans who acted like democrats. when republicans act like democrats they lose. gingrich had to resign and in rick santorum's case he lost by the biggest margin since 1980. >> reporter: you also have former massachusetts mitt romney saying he plans to stay

aggressive with rick santorum. >> thanks for joining us for that report. congressman barney frank is the first sitting congressman to have a legal same-sex marriage. frank who served 16 years in the house has already announced he will not seek reelection. he has decided to tie the knot with his partner. the wedding will take place in massachusetts. police say a woman led them to where she left their still born baby and what authorities are telling them about the investigation. governor martin o'malley and the comptroller get into it over the gas tax proposal. how their comments turn presidential. [ man ] launch sequence initiated.

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congress is putting $63 billion on the table to fort faa to offer you more consumer low -- protection. on the agenda, investigating whether it's safe to use cell phones on planes and if airlines should have to pay more for lost or damaged luggage. the department of homeland security is also moving to make things better for you at the airport. the agency is making its global entry program permanent. that's a program where passengers can get preapproved has low risk travelers, enabling them to get through customs quickly. it cuts the wait time by 70%. it has been a year since the

tsa administrator moved to private screeners. they just passed the reauthorization bill that forces the tsa's chief to approve the request to privatize the screeners. 16 airports have already moved to private security screeners. and good news for mcdonald's for st. patrick's day. the restaurant's famous minty green milk shake, the shamrock shake, will be available all over the country. all 14,000 mcdonald's will carry the frozen treat through march 25th but each restaurant will decide when they cran start serving them. coming up in a few minutes we'll have the latest out of perry hall where one person has died in a crash on bel air road.

police are investigating the discovery of a still born baby inside a dumpster in bel air. >> the injury on his left front leg appears to be a knife wound. this is rocky road. they call him a bait dog. his job is to train other dogs how to fight. now it's you who's fighting mad over this. we have our dukes up ready to punch a night of winter weather. we're not harford zone. roads are wet and it even started to cover the ground. this is the view outside. we're trying to make it up 83. let's go up our front door and see how much we're anticipating. we can see, what? a little bit of snow falling, rain, a lot of red