nobody was injured in the fire and the cause is under investigation. rock raven high school was evacuated after a strange smell, students were out of the building for 30 minutes until officials could determine if there was risk. believed that gas fumes were pulled in to the school's air system, where the fumes came from is under investigation. bge has gotten gas service back to half of those without service since tuesday morning in southwest baltimore. workers have been going door to door to restore service and hope to have a majority of the service back tomorrow. bge reminds residents to ask for id for anyone knocking on the door claiming to restore service. a pair of florida teens will have to find new schools after a video they posted on youtube went viral. the video made by students from gainsville showed them ranting about african americans, saying they were stupid people who would rather spend money on

name branned clothing and iphones rather than housing and food. the girls are no longer students there. >> the students are leaving the high school and will not be students here. there is no place for that in the public school system or society in general. >> police were called to the school after other students found out about the video and watched it. there is no word on charges. san antonio texas student arrested after police say he brought 15-inch blade to school and pulled it out. it was a replica sword and not sharpened but still an illegal weapon. the teen is facing possible felony charges and could be kicked out of school. a disabled man attacked and the whole thing caught on camera. it happened in a courtroom, coming up after the break, what is done after the man was beaten and dragged outside. tonight we have a look at the dash cam video from police when

they found a mom and daughter missing for days.

economic recovery is working from wall street to main street and motor city, things are looking up. tj winnick explains. >> reporter: is america. so is called soft economic recovery finally beginning to firm up? the dow is around 100 points away from 13,000, a milestone not reached since may of 2008, before the depth of the great recession. on the jobs front the number of americans filing furn employment is at a 4-year low. more good news could be on the way. with congress expected to vote on nearly $100 billion payroll tax cut extension. >> these are taxes on income and taxes that are paid by people who work on the wages, they tend to get spent. you would think this would put extra cash spent in to the economy. >> reporter: you don't have to convince gm there is a turn around in the works. thursday the world's number one car maker announced $7 billion in profit, the biggest in the company's 103 year history.

all this comes two years after they emerged from bankruptcy with the help of the bailout. factory workers once afraid of getting pink slips learn they had are getting bonus checks worth $7000. gm sales aren't just up in north america, in china, too. last year, one gm car or truck, sold every 12 seconds. it's not unusual for companies to come out bankruptcy and have a positive bounce right after. the question is are they going to be able to sustain over the long haul. >> reporter: there is positive news, there where warning signs as well, including the euro debt crisis, gas prices which have been creeping up in recent weeks. to the story of a simple mistake caught on tape. a cadeca neigheddian man accidently walked through the wrong r door at a courthouse skipping the routine security screening. a sheriff tried to stop the man, the sheriff picked him up

and dragged him towards the exit. the man starts to go litch limp. the man had throat cancer and couldn't speak and hard of hearing. a tube was pulled out during the struggle in his throat. the sheriff was fired br using excessive and unjustified force. google maybe tracking you. what they are able to do to keep track of you. if you are looking for a job and savvy, we have the best city for you to get a job in right now.

on the go tonight in howard county at the savor sip style

event in ellicott city. roosevelt leftwich is there. you get the good assignments. >> reporter: luxury homes, fine things, things that people want to like, from ions to closet work, good rugs and homes, many many different things. anything that is classy and night. this is where you want to be on this weekend. here to tell us the raee regina. this is a fun event. >> we want everybody out there to come. we do have wonderful vendors this year. the show has been here for five years. with have another neukom new, component. seminars by the experts. 7 deadly design things to five things questions you have to ask before you renovate and we have somebody talking about designing a kitchen that you will still love 30 years from

now. >> people need to know when to start, where to start. >> we have somebody telling you how to afford this, should you take a loan out? should you save for it? i mean, lots of good information for anybody planning a renovation. absolutely. also, we have father leo on sunday, and he is doing, he is the bobby flay cookoff winner. throw down. little priest beat out bobby flay. i'm dieing to see it. he is going to conjure d8up hi recipe. everybody can have a copy of it afterwards. bob la seedo, from the vantage team, he is going to tell you, how to afford a $200,000 college education on buying one rental property. he did it, and he is going to

tell you how to do it. we have in the foster team, unveiling a new book, a motivational seminar on creating your own fate. >> there is a lot of good stuff. we have a builder here. we want to talk to john for caked. this is john. you do a lot of different things. she was talking about where to start, when you do an expansion. people want to figure out where they need to start. >> i have a few over here. this is in addition, ellicott city. a lot of big space. we added 600 square feet. >> opened up the back of the house. this is the same house, kitchen in ellicott city that we did. we can see how we brought light in and open windows. looks homey. >> yeah. we also do bathrooms.

this is a bathroom we did in columbia, which went along with, a lot more first floor additions. that's what this was. about making good news of the space you have. a lot of people may not want to buy a new home. people are trying to stay where they are. that's really been a benefit. benefits for us. >> come over here. the thing is, is this a good time of year to get closets and stuff together. clean out the old clutter. >> that's what we specialize in is organizing the space you have. making the most of the space you have. they want to make the most of the area they have. we do custom closets, pantries, laundry rooms, we make the most of the space to make sure that you are getting the ultimate use of the space. >> figuring somewhere to put all the shoes. that's the big thing. >> 150 pair of shoes we got room for.

>> it's savor, sip and style, this weekend, from 11:00 to 5:00, come out and savor and sip and look at the style. more coming up later. >> thank you so much. all new tonight, discrimination of pregnant women in the workplace is a problem. researchers from the u.s. equal employment commission say claims like emotion or job loss have been increasing since 97. last year 6000 pregnant women were discriminated against. google maybe tracking movement of iphone users. google found a work around for safaris tracking block. google can see any website you visited. a spokesman says they are disabling the tracking and no personal information collected. consumer financial

protection bureau cracking down on credit reporting agencies and debt collectors. the changes were prompted by the number of americans with debt and the fact that employers are using credit information to make hires in some cases. nice clear evening out. there joesey is making the a little longer and feeling spring like, at least it will today and tomorrow. 50bwi. humidity bone dry. dry air in place. this is the story tomorrow, more sunshine and comfortable temperatures what is the big deal about the forecast? sunday, completely different. of course, the weather can change extremely rapidly in mid february in maryland. here is the maryland landmark for you. the bay bridge, lots of traffic. clear skies over the bridge after morning fog. mount airy, summit ridge, interesting this sunday snow

system likely to provide much more snow to areas to the south and not north western areas like mount airy which get our higher snow totals, bel air same deal. northern areas may get cut off. more accumulations in places like annapolis, easton and further south, ocean city. take a look at maryland's most powerful radar, there are already, winter storm watches up for central virginia. points well west of dc and baltimore. that is for sunday, not for tonight or tomorrow. temperature wise, statewide, comfortable numbers for all but oakland and extreme western maryland, humidity, low, comfortable, pleasant. we have covered the fact that the first half of the weekend is looking fine. the proverbial calm before the storm. the cloud shield, you see enrotching on the tennessee valley, that's the leading edge of the power house storm.

high pressure controls in to tonight and tomorrow. nothing more than a few clouds tomorrow afternoon. watch what happens as we roll forward in time here. future trend model, there are different variations, models, projecting different movement of the storm. at this point in time, this thing is in the carolinas by sunday morning early. fine through saturday night around baltimore around dc. it's as we go, in to the daytime hours of sunday, zoom in here, this is 6:00 a.m., watch as that precipitation makes its move north. by 10:00 a.m. knocking on the tore across the state. -- door across the state. lower eastern shore, down through southern maryland. we will get a changeover to snow statewide as we go through the day sunday, and again this is a projection 48 hours out from now, this is our best guesstimate with the heaviest snow bands down through the central northern virginia area, west of dc. tough you have the keep in mind

the storm is forming. the exact movement in 48 hours, tough to project even with the best computer estimation. 32 tonight through the day tomorrow, 52 with sunshine, and i think some spots could end up a good bit warmer than that. probably going to adjust the high temperature up for the 6:00 news. tomorrow, 34. seven-day forecast looking ahead. eyes on a split weekend, spring like saturday, winter like sunday. how much snow and where, we think most of this is going to be south of us, but too early to nail down precisely. more coming up on the news at 6:00. see you there. to democracy 2012 news, a donation from a billioniary casino -- billionaire casino mogul. how much money? >> reporter: talking about $10

million. as you know, that can buy a lot of tv ads. that's exactly what supporters of newt gingrich are banking on. newt gingrich's close friend, casino moguled a adelson, 10 million to him probably feels like a drop in the bucket. for presidential campaign, it's a winds fall. a source tells us adelson is set to donate to a pro newt gingrich super pact. that's on top of about $11 million he and his wife has given the organization. this could be huge for newt gingrich, she trying to compete in as many super tuesday states as possible. you need a lot of money to do so. perhaps that's why despite flipping recently in the polls, he is sounding so confident. >> i've been front runner twice. >> so a very confident newt gingrich.

it will be very interesting to see if he does indeed get a bump !mafter receiving that $10 million donation. back to you. >> speaking of big money, we've heard republican candidates say who ever wins will face barack obama and his billion dollars campaign. >> president obama's campaign is saying there is no way that they plan on raiseing that sort of money. here are the hard numbers we have for you right now. president obama's reelection campaign saying they released $29.1 million in january alone. far grand total, roughly $250 million point out, that of the people who made the donations, 9 8%, donated $250 or less. now let's look at the republicans through december, mitt romney raising $57 million, see the other candidates there trail begin

hinds romney. this no doubt, shaping up to be a expensive election. it's no secret that the u.s. postal service has been struggling now they have come up with a proposal to get on their feet. it may not make you happy. postmaster general outlined a plan cutting 150,000 jobs and increasing the stamp to $0.50. president obama showed support for the plan in his most recent budget. congress is divided. happening right now, debate is continuing on the floor of the house of delegates, on the hot button issue of same sex marriage. new, when we might see a vote on the issue. a bit of motown came to baltimore today. how the temptations were well reviewed.

dow jones had the highest close of the year, 46 points close at 12,950. nasdaq fell at 2952, sp500, rose 3 points to close at over 1360. highest close of the year so far. hundreds of thousands of

americans are looking for jobs, but there are some industries expanding. people who love to tweet, post, or pin can get paid to do it. karen looks at the best cities to snag a social media job. >> reporter: explosion of social media meant a shift for companies, schools and the government incorporating facebook, twitter, google plus and like in to what they do everyday. that's meant a new career path, social media professionals. the question, how do i get paid to tweet? >> some employers are placing a very large significant emphasis on social media and value the profession. >> reporter: on ward search, which specializes in finding digital careers looked at the cities with the highest volume of social media jobs. number one on their list, new york, the next three are in california. san jose, san francisco and los angeles. rounding out the top five, boston. some postings will have social

media in the title. if they don't, other key words include, digital marketing project manager, on line marketing manager, brands manager or p pc specialist. you want to make sure your skills outside of social media are a good fit for an employer, too. it is inaccurate to have the assumption that if you have a lot of facebook friends, that you are going to get paid a lot of money. >> reporter: salaries for the most experienced professionals in the top markets, as high as $117,000 annually. united airlines merging with continental is take on the pet polly, meaning extra fees as much as $400 in some trans continental flights. each has a different policy, military families are starting petitions to get the rules

changed. merger between two power company giants is emerging. a vote may come tonight in the house, for the same sex marriage bill. another delay in the trial of george huguely, there was testimony today. that story is coming up. it's been a quiet winter so far, but could that change this weekend? the storm is brewing. who needs to breakout the shovels? we will have details on that. first, what is happening now in annapolis, delegates are still debating a same sex marriage bill. cheryl conner is live in the state house tonight following those developments for us and joins us live with an update. >> reporter: a vote is not coming quic