area, near the arizona state line. the military trains in area surrounded by mountains because the conditions are similar to iraq and afghanistan. the public works department refunding four million dollars after audit found it over charged thousands of customers. it showed some homes were only estimated for years while others never got a bill. it's for customers in baltimore city and county. the state senate is expected to vote on same sex marriage soon. should it pass the governor is expected to sign it into law making maryland the 8th state to legalize it. opponents promise to bring it to voters in november. what shape is your child's school in? do they are text books? what about lab equipment? today some city school kids

opened up their classrooms and answered no to all of those questions. it's all in an effort to gain support for the mayor's proposed increase to the bottle tax. >> reporter: the class at patterson high school, there is no lab equipment and text books few. >> in order to have a lab day based science class they -- to use that learning i would take -- i guess running gas and lab tables. >> reporter: for them learning chemistry is difficult. >> we need to know like, how to work things, how to create different reactions, how the chemicals and metals and all that work. we can't do that without all the supplies or the correct supplies. . >> reporter: the mayor propose aid bottle tax hike from two cents to five. >> that would start to add $23

million yearly to school construction budget by the end of july next year. >> reporter: today city council vice president and various community organizations got a tour of patterson high school. they saw the boiler room. >> patterson was built in 1958. this is one of the original boiler that came with the school. . as you can see, this boiler has been condemned for the last three to four years. >> reporter: they saw school falling apart because of age and neglect, visited classroom for the temperature was above 94 degrees and heard from the students. >> don't -- [inaudible] the raid ate ear is open where you can see the wires and the power sockets are open too. > students don't care to even come to school because of the conditions. >> the bottle tax is us putting our money where our

mouth is. >> reporter: and saw the start of the school project change for change. did you know that it was this bad? >> i had no idea. no idea. how bad it is for some of the classrooms. >> our kids cannot be leaders of the 21st century in shanty buildings. >> our kids deserve better. >> we want to update you on a situation, apparently hazmat teams working with an underground diesel spill in cherry hill. are you looking at a live picture. it's in the -- its right by south side academy. the department of the environmental is trying to help stop the leak. the good news is we are told there have been no injuries and workers are still trying to find what caused this leak. you can see the crews working out there. we will continue to keep tabs

on them and follow any developments and we will bring them to you as soon as we know more. >> the weather front, very nice today with temperatures running about 20 degrees above seasonable average. we are still above 60 at pwi, 61 at the airport. 63 easton. 63salsbury and dc at 64, very light wind from the west. a light breeze -- i point this out because wind wills be increasing dramaticly tomorrow as the temperatures increase as well above 70 degrees. temperatures diving tomorrow night. all part of a powerful cold front. that high wind watch throughout the day tomorrow. carroll county west may well extend in to the central part of the state. this evening eventually down in to the 50s. partly cloudy, mild and breezy. how much colder it gets over the weekend and look ahead to next weeks. all coming up. >> thank you. an 8-year-old is in critical

condition tonight after she was shot inside her washington state classroom. >> reporter: here is what happened. kids packing up, ready to go home when a gun goes off inside a backpack, hitting an 8-year- old right in her stomach. the school immediately went into lockdown. teachers doing their best to control the situation. parents of course panicked. as they waited to see their children. >> i just want to know who the child is that got shot. i don't know if it's mine. >> reporter: it was amenia who was taken to the hospital where she went into surgery right away. she is expected to recover. a 9-year-old boy was charged as a juvenile with unlawful possession of a firearm and bringing the gun to school. parents still want to know how he got a gun and why it wasn't locked up and unloaded. >> thank you. more to come on this. news from around the nation starting off in new jersey

where a grandmother and four children were unable to get out of a burning home. the fire started around three this morning at the home which is more than a hundred years old. the children ranged from two to 12 years old. the children's mother, her baby daughter and 15-year-old son managed to get out. we don't know what caused the fire. a train derailment caused headaches in texas. several road hazardous to be shut down after at least five train cars derailed. officials say the cars were carrying car parts so there were no health concerns, all but one of the roads was reopened late in the day. nobody was hurt. and a judge has ordered a plan to apologize to his estranged wife on facebook. he ruled mark byron violated a protection order after posting a picture of his son and himself while venting his frustration over his divorce and child visitation. despite his wife being blocked she saw the comments and a

judge ruled in her favor. he now has to post an apology every day for 30 days to avoid a 60 day jail sentence. he said he just wants freedom of speech and to see his son more. ist on one hand i have been told i can't say what i want it to say on facebook and now i must say something they are telling me i have to say. this prewritten apology. >> the judge also ruled that he has to grant friend status to his wife or someone of her choosing to monitor that page. gas prices have grabbed all of our attention lately but for one reporter it turned out not to be her main story. coming up how a live report on increasing prices nearly came to a crashing halt. and a diet pill may help you shed pounds, how it's rebounded after being rejected by the fda.

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. now to something caught on tape that may be hard to watch. a base jumper named the bird man was making a jump off a mountain in south avenue contract back in january when he crashed into a rock and nearly fell to his death.

he uses a specially made flying suit that lets him foul about 125 miles an hour but during this jump he got to close to a ledge, hitting it and then falling through the area. he barely got his emergency chute open before landing. he was taken to the hospital and spent five week there is with broken bones throughout his legs. one lucky guy. >> when oil and gas prices go up slight costs go up too. we could see fewer people driving. >> you don't normally see a car crash live but that is what happened behind the reporter covering gas prices. it wasn't until the anchor mentioned crash that she said it. probably shocked by the gas prices. >> the crash looked sounds bad the drivers of the two cars only suffered minor injuries. have you bounced a check in it can be expensive. coming up why a new government

agency plans to investigate how much and why banks charge overdraft fees to possibly save you more money. . >> the fight moves the debate stage to the campaign trail. i'm in mesa arizona where the attacks continue.

. there may be help for people looking to loose weight. a new diet drug could be available soon and experts hope it could help shed many pounds. >> reporter: it may soon be the first new prescription diet pill on the market in 13 years. it helped 20-year-old frasier loose 165 pounds in just one year. >> i went from 395 to 225 .

>> reporter: after being rejected two years ago the drug clear aid major hurdle yesterday when a group overwhelmingly recommended the drug be brought to market finding the significant weight loss benefits out weigh the risks. >> it would be the most potent medication we have. currently available drugs aren't very effective. >> reporter: still the side effects serious. they include increased heart rate, kidney stones, memory loss, and birth defects. the fda has until april 17th to rule. >> i think one of the big things we will see is restrictions to keep it away from pregnant women because of the birth defects, to try to limit it to people who are truly obe section. >> reporter: it produced about 10% loss of body weight in the first two years of use. it could be the silver bullet to the almost one third of adults and 17% of children in the united states who are obese. their options right now are

limited. >> go from weight watchers to surgery, that leavings about 65 million people who need a new option. >> reporter: still, the drug has its opponents. >> i think diet drugs really fall squarely in the category of its to good to be true. >> reporter: the expert panel said it's unclear if those side effects can lead to more serious heart problems such as heart attacks. abc news. >> now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> what a finish to a fine february day of weather. temperatures running 20 degrees above average. now we are down to 61. maybe take the dog for a walk or go for a walk yourself. it's looking good. ocean city today, sunshine at the beach, people out on the boardwalk, why not? it was over 60 degrees here as well. the ocean still rather cold.

kemp island a postcard shot over the marina. our view from hemingway. let's get into it a little bit. temperature wise, statewide we are at or above 60 in most of the state but for extreme western maryland. 45 oakland, 63 ocean city, winds light from from the northwest. i show these not to point out the wind but how much they will come up tomorrow. we have a high wind watch from carroll westward in the state for friday and i think this could be extended further east. maybe up to the chesapeake where the high winds which could go over 40 miles an hour, tomorrow night and even into early saturday morning. highs today, look at these, 65 at the inner harbor. 66 annapolis, we have 65 in george down. that was pleasant and across the area, few passes clouds, one or two blips on the radar. our trend is quiet but its been

a fast moving pattern. it's like part of the day. we have overcast skies and the sun came back out. i think tonight you will continue to seat warm weather surging in on a south breeze and that will get stronger tomorrow. briefly warming us up in quite a bit. 70roanoke, 77 charleston south carolina. briefly into the warm sector of air before it all ends tomorrow evening. chances for rain, they will be there over night. scattered showers perhaps and then into the day on friday not more than a hit or miss shower or thunderstorm. right now looks like most of the activity will be south and east of us. there is that front. you can make it out. as that goes off shore the real cold air will come in on saturday. overnight down 47, a few showers, fairly mild, the two degree tomorrow, not a record but with in a few degrees of one and then tomorrow night down 38, turning colder, that's that seven day forecast. you see the difference this weekend in to the upper 40s but

still sun and next week mild air but not as mild, things will be tomorrow. back to you. >> thank you. the four candidates for the republican nomination are looking ahead to major contests a day after the critical debate in arizona. today romney continued his attacks against his biggest competition. santorum joins us . >> reporter: there were a lost fireworks during the debate and santorum took the bunt of the attacks during the debate. that's a sign is he a top tier candidate. here are some examples. >> we voted to raise the debt ceiling five times without compensating cuts . >> you were fighting to savor the bridge to nowhere. we have a new television ad calling him a fake. >> because is he a fake.

>> romney is at public events today and to no surprise santorum was his main target. >> i don't know if i have ever seen a prick an explain so many ways why he voted against his principles. . >> reporter: santorum isn't just sitting there. he is coming one a new ad airing in michigan and it's really attacking romney because clearly santorum seize their could go an opportunity to beat him in his home state. >> shifting gears, the president holding a number of campaign events in florida today and he is even taking aim at the upcoming republican primary state. >> reporter: he definitely is. he had three fundraisers in florida today and then also held a speech where he talked about the economy. >> we need new american

manufacturers, we have to have new skills in education for american's workers. and we need new sources of american made energy. >> reporter: while he stumped in florida his campaign release aid new ad in michigan take a look. >> for generations of michigan auto workers it its more than a slogan. when a million jobs were on the line every republican candidate turned their back, said let detroit go bankrupt, not him. >> reporter: clearly some not so subtlejabs. romney's campaign responding already saying that the president is just essentially afraid to face romney in the general election and the timing of the ad is what's significant because the voters in michigan head to the polls on tuesday. >> all right. live from mesa. stay tuned for more. thank you for that.

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>> maybe a way that you could end up holding onto more of your money. investigating bank overdraft fees to see how much they impact consumers. they are designed to save customers embarrassment of bouncing a check. low income and young adult bank customers seem to be the most prone to those fees. those of you filing electronicly you usual expect it in a week. this year it's now 10 to 21 days because of new safe guards.

. >> the irs could have a check worth hundreds of dollars waiting for you. they say they have one billion dollars in unclaimed refunds. half are worth more than $600. time is rungo. you need to get it in no later than april 17th to collect the money. that's the same day that this year's tax forms are due. it's usually a simple supply and demand problem. it if demand goes down supply goes up and prices go down. not if you are talking about gas. a survey by mastercard spending poll found that demand for gas in the united states has dropped every week for the last 11 months but that hasn't pushed the prices down. because of the increase of crude oil and demand from other country, prices continue to climb. ben and jerry's is jumping in to the greek yogurt market

but making frozen. they have revealed four new flavors, raspberry fudge chunk, strawberry shortcake. it has a thicker creamier text tour with more protein . president's day weekend may be over but it's not to late to get a great deal. we will look at a local consignment store where you can get toy clothing for a steal. that's at the news at six which starts right now. >> now, abc 2news at six. >> did you get that phone call to tell annapolis about paying to live in your home? what it's about. and how many of you felt your water bill had real strange numbers. you may be right. you could be getting