valentine's day. some clouds, getting chilly. we'll talk how the tuesday shapes up and the rest of the week. almost billion dollar mortgage relief settlement for maryland found distressed homeowner lighting up the phones on a new hotline center. jeff hager has more on the delays and dollars tied to that help. >> reporter: foreclosure have changed the face of many neighborhoods here in maryland. >> lot of people in the neighborhood had a whole lot of, had he -- even colleagues are homeless, because of it. >> reporter: volunteers manning the attorney general's mortgage settlement hotline handled almost 100 calls an hour mornings, as people jumped at the chance to save their homes. >> they tried to refinance, deal with the banks, and have been unsuccessful. most have talked about getting

the run-around every time they contacted the bank. >> reporter: with $960 million coming to the state to help people refinance, or to lower the amount they owe, consumer protection director bill groom says the first order of business is seeing if you qualify. >> the settlement was with the five largest service error, bank of america, jpmorgan chase, wells fargo, city bank, and ally gmac. >> the settlement isn't going to cover everyone even with those five servicers. most significantly, it's not going to cover people whose loans are owned by freddie mac orphan any may. >> reporter: it could be three months or more before any mortgage holder gets any assistance. but operators at the hotline are offering these tips. if you don't have one already, you should get a housing cons sorry attach to -- counselor attached to your case by calling 1-877-462-7555. keep making your payments if you can. and make sure you open any

letters or answer any calls from your bank. >> the banks have an incentive if they get this relief out to people quickly under the agreement, and then there are penalties if they delay. >> reporter: jeff hager, abc 2 news. if you need help, grab a pen. you can call the attorney general's office for help, 410-576-6300. if you lost your home to foreclosure over the last three years to one of the banks listed in the settlement, you may be eligible for up to $2000. and president obama has unveiled his budget for 2013. this morning, the books containing the president's $3.8 trillion plan were delivered to members of congress. the president says his budget would spend more to create jobs, and pay for that in part with tax increasing on america's wealthiest. he's suggesting some big cuts in programming, includes medicare. obama says his plan will reduce

the deficit by $4 trillion. >> by reducing the deficit in the long term, what that allows us to do is invest in the things that will help grow our economy right now. we can't cut back on those things that are important for us to grow. we can't just cut our way into growth. we can cut back on the things we don't need, but we have to make sure that everyone is paying their fair share for the things we do need. >> republicans complained the budget continues gimmicks, and too much spending. nasa will have less cash to work with. the state's agency is looking at about $300 million in cuts to its exploration program, that means two missions to mars may have to be scrapped. the budget is expected to be around $18 billion. among other things, the cash

will be used to keep the space station up and running, and to build a new rocket that can take humans to mars some day. ge is helping out the her roque men and women that that serve our country. they plan to hire 5000 veterans in the next five years. ge is teaming up to host hundreds of job fairs for veterans, the company says some of the store will offer extra job training. ge employs more than 10,000 veteran. a grizzly story unfolding today in northern california. where authorities are unearthing the remains of a serial killing spree, jewelry and bodies have been recovered. >> reporter: kept in the green hills about 60 miles south of sacramento, this abandoned ranch is the scene much a slow motion nightmare, where investigators have found about 300 human bones

>> we've found pieces here. >> reporter: days of digging have yielded women's shoes and clothing, even jewelry and a purse. scott smith is a veteran local reporter who has been covering the case for years. >> and they're going through on their hands and knees, and combing through the dirt with their fingers and removing the large bones, and shoes, and other items they find. >> reporter: the grim discoveries were made with the help of a map, drawn by death row inmate wes shermantime. he and another were know as the speed -- from the 1980s until the arrests in 1999. bound did did a bounty offered m $33,000 to disclose the location of the victims. >> he showed me a map, there's still bodies in the well. >> reporter: herzog searched 13 years, was paroled but committed

last month, after learning that shermantime would reveal where the bodies were. they revealed one victim, who disappeared in 1988. the hope is dna testing will identify more victims. >> at least part of the money paid to the intimate is to go to families. rain forced them to call off the digging, but they are expected to resume tomorrow. you may be annoyed by the launch in the morning, but you didn't have to deal with this. the craze wake up call one woman -- the crazy wake up call one woman got. one girl decided to break some rules, wait until you see what her mother did. [ female announcer ] with swiffer wet

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new video tonight high winds from virginia over the weekend, brought down a large tree, crashing through the roof of a home, right into an up can's bed. -- right into a couple's bed. this tree came crashing down, slicing the home, the tree and the branches trapped a husband and wife in the bedroom.

the tree crushed the bed into the floor of the home. she was pinned in the bed. >> i started to cry, i didn't realize she was the one -- >> it took rescuers an hour to free the woman. the woman was treated at a hospital, her injuries were not life threatening. a memphis teen is learning a lesson the hard way. the boy and aunt said -- the last straw was when she took her mom's debit card to reactivate her cell phone that was cut off for punishment. >> this is why she's here. she has not learned her also son. >> she had to earn during the embarrasses sign for a while, and even though her mother is hoping she got the message, she still doesn't have the cell phone back on from you probably shouldn't try this at home. check out the scene from amsterdam. jeff thompson shot this video,

some 25 years since the canal has frozen like this. and, now, wisconsin, new neighbor on the block, a 300-pound black bear spending the winter in a drainage ditch. the bears typically hibernate about four months out of the year. how would you like to see that waking up? week off from the primary, but that doesn't mean the gop candidates are taking a break. we'll show you how they're uses in week to get them ready for the next showdown. the best cities for singles. baltimore is pretty high on that list. but what city came in at number one? we'll come back and tell you.

an organization has started inspections at working conditions at apple factories in china. it interviewed thousands of employees there about the working conditions. it will include this compensation and no working hours, it comes in the wake of growing public concern about labor concerns in the overseas factories. in the consumer alert, apple's share of stock have reached $500. the tech giant stock surged with record sales on the iphone and ipad. apple hit the $400 levels for the first time: and appeal shares traded at just $78..20 three years ago. now they are taking on samsung, claiming the company violated the 4-iphone patent. it wants to stop the sales of the galaxy. apple believes it is using their signature slide to unlock

feature recognize. it is claiming sales of the galaxy will cause irreparable harm to their other brand. now maryland's most powerful doppler radar, and the forecaster find -- forecast -- we're talking about 45-degree reading at bwi, so still pleasant, average high this time of year, 44, so we are above average after a very below average weekend temperature-wise. very wintery out there saturday and sunday. this monday, we bounce back. and you can see that on the weather through the day from the state capitol in annapolis, beautiful blue skies. nice looking day with just a gorgeous sunset, finishing out the day. more wintery to the west, as you might expect, light coating the snow on the ground from the weekend, and in winter green, you can see they had the snow

guns firing up when it was cold enough, so decent ski conditions out to the west, had a chance to go to whitetail on saturday, and it was pretty good, but i don't know how long that will hold up. the radar is all year, that she hold up through mid-morning tomorrow, and we'll see showers, maybe some snow mixed with rain, no accumulations, mid-40s now, we're mild, dry the rest of the evening, and the rest of the evening, a steady westerly breeze will drop what it feels like quickly into the 30s. right now, windchill factor 39, frederick -- still hanging on to 45 in annapolis, clouds blowing from the west, these are fair weather clouds, not bringing immediate precipitation, but the main moisture with the system will begin to arrive by mid-morning, so we'll look for a mixed round of showers on and off throughout the day, light showers, i think, you can see it to the west, significant looking storm. the dynamics in the setup as it

gets around west virginia and the carolinas looks less favorable tore it to maintain strength, so we look at it encounters dry air, a lot of this moisture will split to the south. you can see that here in the future trend, but we will get a piece of it in maryland. we think we could see a brief round of snow showers, specialry north of baltimore. say between 8-11:00 a.m. and then you in. you can see after that morning round, quickly clears out, and we're left with just cloudy skies, and maybe a couple hit and miss rain showers through the afternoon. we dry things out, and clear things out, and we're back in the sunshine wednesday afternoon. a short, short-lived precipitation event. a look at the overknit forecast down to 28, cloud on the increase, rather cold. your forecast for valentine's day, 48, cloudy, chilly, look for drizzle, early snow showers, and tomorrow night, could see some mixed showers heading out, and for your valentine's night,

let the fireworks fly! all right, here's the 7-day forecast, as we look ahead, you can see the trend is for a warmup, back close to 50 on wednesday with the sunshine back, and i think as we go towards friday and saturday, we could be well above 50. on the whole, not a bad-looking february trend. just be aware for valentine's day. >> a few showers. >> the weather we had this weekend is out of here. that wind was from robes. >> you want a nice valentine's day. >> i'll be spending time with you. in democracy 2012, for the first time since the new year, a week will go by without a caucus, pry pair -- primary or debate. how are the candidate handling this free time. >> reporter: i'm sure they are keeping busy. >> reporter: yeah, they don't exactly get a vacation out of this one, kelly. there are still four candidates in the running so even though there's nothing official on the electrical car, candidates are doing all they can to jockey for

position. >> reporter: in a race this tight, appearances could mean anything, mitt romney walked away with two victories this weekend. he took the maine caucus caucusy just 3% over ron paul, and romney won the cpac straw bowl. garnering enough support for the conservative voters he is trying to i am breast. the significance of the -- impress, the significance is debatable, but romney will take them nonetheless. the man romney edged out in the cpac poll, rick santorum, says the four-man race -- we'll hear from rick santorum, he said this is not a four person race, he is trying to pose this as a two person race. and that's the messages staying with. and newt gingrich is saying the most important election since 1960.

he wants the voters to be with him. he headed out west, he is in the state of california, talking to voters and trying to raise critical campaign money. we have mitt romney in arizona, that's because voters will go to the polls two weeks from today. rick santorum looking ahead to washington, voters will go for the caucuses there. that is two months to the day after the iowa caucuses. two months that will have passed, and if things don't change, the race will remain tight at the top. kelly, back to you. >> what's the latest about the national poll showing mitt romney could be in danger of losing his lead? what's going son there. >> reporter: he wants to maintain his status and image as a frontrunner, and things over the weekend helped do that a bit, but look at the new gallop poll. it showed mitt romney in the lead with 32%, but rick santorum there at 30%, well within the margin of error to be in this two-person race, so there is a

pugh pole poll that showed santorum a bit ahead, so the candidates will use this week where they don't have to worry about an election to try to maybe reposition their stories, friday to refocus their -- try to refocus their campaign and shake up the race. kelly? >> emily schmidt, live from washington, thanks for that report. new jersey, lawmakers approved a bill legal icing same sex marriage, but that doesn't mean the bill will become a reality. the state governor says he will vetoed it if it reaches his desk. if that happens, lawmakers have until 2014 to override the decision. six states and washington, d.c., allow same sex marriage. and here, they are looking to do the same. a ruling on your right to record police officers. we're going to look at the lawsuit in the courts as well as an incident that happened over the weekend. and have you gotten a letter from the bankrupt hollywood video store change asking for late fees? before you write a check, we'll

make sure you are not being scammed. those stories and more coming up at 6:00. now a preview of what's ahead on world news at 6:30.

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valentine's day is tomorrow, and if your stumped about what to get your special someone, we have some ideas. roses are red, i love you, that's always important. another sure way to melt your valentine's heart, buy your sweety chocolate. these are the staples. other popular gifts include dinner and a movie. and are you looking for love this valentine's day? maybe you need a change of scenery. a study ranked the best cities in the country for singles. they looked at city's average household income and cost of living. this limited to places where more than half of the household are single, and averaged cost. number 5, los angeles, number 4, baltimore. number 3, santa cruze, number 2, bloomington, illinois, and number 1 city for singles, ann arbor michigan. that's a shocker, don't you

think? >> ann arbor, you know her. >> i guess! a year after saying the elementary school was not the place to say -- not the play to celebrate valentine's day. we'll tell you about the limitations at 6:00, which starts right now. how far can you go videotaping police. police take a stand, but do the courts agree. more painful testimony for the family of yeardley love. will we be safe? will there be jobs? will our taxes go down? the mayor gives her state of city address to address those issues. but to our developing story out of baltimore city, can you use your iphone or video camera and just roll any time you want when you see the police in a public place? brian uses video proof from the peekness and from this weekend in federal hill to explain why