hitler. >> "movie:the movie." >> big names for . devoted father, husband and soldier killed in afghanistan, i'm linda so, when the body of robert marchanti is set to come home. you may think you are helping your kids by giving them a video game, but a study suggests they are no more physically active than just sitting on the couch. thank you for joining us i'm megan pringle. >> i'm charley crowson. i guess that kills that excuse as to why you need the wii. time for a check of the forecast.

hello to lynette charles. >> good morning. check out today, we will be nice and quiet. we are looking a at the fact we have plenty of sunshine in the forecast for us, for today. we will have mild temperatures, high near 60 degrees. more active weather by midweek, we will get chilly again in time for the end of february, right? maryland's most powerful radar, not picking up on a lot. we are dry. all five sweeps on, remaining the story as we go in to the afternoon. temperatures, we are chilly. elkton 26 degrees. below average there. aberdeen 31. pasadena 37 degrees. let's get a check of the traffic with angela. good morning. let's get ready to head out. should be a great start for you. we had a tour of the cameras, looking good, especially around the beltway. what you can expect on the

drive through downtown. 895, well through the tunnel, northbound and southbound, if you travel between harford and baltimore, i-95, on going road work, no delays to report as we get a look at i-95 north of maryland 43, looking good from this point, all the way to the fort mc henry tunnel. >> today a baltimore family will watch as the flagged draped coffin carrying the body of their father and husband arrived. >> linda so has the latest on his death. >> soldier's body will arrive at dover air force base. we put a call in to the department of defense, waiting to get details. his family is planning a viewing in baltimore and buried at arlington national cemetery. robert marchanti is survived by his wife of peggy of 25 years. his son and daughter sat down with us last night. he spent half of his life rising through the ranks of the

army national guard fa. he was deployed twice. before becoming a soldier he was a physical education teacher. his son says his father taught him one life lesson he will never forget. >> it's not the type of situations you are in that defies you as a men but it's how you handle the situation that defies you as a man. robert richardson the third, the bel air teen accused of shooting his father will be arraigned in court. expected to appear in court at 1:30 this afternoon. the case garnered attention from parents who say richardson was being abused. two people are safe after rescued from a fire in their apartment. this happened around 4:00 on sunday on the second floor of

sheridan. one person was rescued by a firefighter, the other an a ladder that happened from the outside of the apartment. both hospitalized for smoke inhalation. 9 apartments were damaged in the fire. two volunteer firefighters were seriously injured when battling a house fire. this happened in river dale friday. they were hurt when a burst of fresh air from the rear of the house created a fire ball inside. otoole burned on 40% of his body. cher rell is scheduled for tests. a third firefighter was released from the hospital. 7 firefighters in all for hurt. a subaru ran through a cleaners in a shopping center. bge is investigating the buildings to make sure the

structure is sound. police are investigating after a towson man arrived at his home and found a burglar inside. the burglar shot the man. the victim is recovering this morning. the suspect shot him and ran away. police found the suspect yesterday morning. police say there is no indication the victim was targeted. man died after stabbed on saturday morning, thomas atkins jr. was found in the 2800 block of orleans street. police believe he was stabbed. he was taken to johns hopkins and died. police are investigating this. a maryland man says a missing id cost him his job. washington dc police found that identification after a shooting back in november, in a dc nightclub after a fight inside led to a shooting that killed a man and that man was doug king. he was celebrating his birthday and dropped his driver's

license while running to safety. he lost his job as a loan processer in virginia when he says his employer was told by detectives that he was a suspect in murder investigation. >> it's how i lost my job. that detective didn't have a reason to call because he had an id. that's my biggest thing. no one has called to apologize to mr. king. no one is taking steps to repair his life. >> king was told he was a person of interest in the case because of where his identification was found. the u.s. attorney's office issued a statement to king's employer clearing him as a suspect. another man has been arrested and charged with murder. prom season fast approaching. high school girls are looking for the perfect dress. >> i'm sherrie johnson, live in downtown baltimore with a preview of an event to help young girls afford their prom. don't miss the details and a fashion show coming up. the dazzling view sky watchers found.

we will show you coming up as we look in case you missed it. that's a live look in los angeles, see the kodak theater there on the left side of your screen. a wrap up for the winners and n town when good morning maryland continues. ñ[=

a rare sight this weekend, called a triple conjunction, the moon, venus and jupiter lined up in a triangle. this is video you may have missed from los angeles, covers two hours in a few seconds. home video caught sisters celebrating the snow. listen. [music] they are feeling the oscars, too. this is 7-year-old lucy and her

littest sister from chicago. they were singing there is no business like snow business. chicago got a hefty batch of snow for the weekend. i love it, i love that video. that is so cute. we have to go up around the great lakes, that's where we will see a clipper trying to slide through the area today. we are going to see showers down to the south, not going to get us at all. a few clouds streaming in from that. our next system coming out here from the pacific northwest, we won't see rain in the forecast until your wednesday. for today, we are dealing with the chilly temperatures this morning, coming in around 29 degrees in to bel air, 32 manchester. good morning chester town, around 33 degrees, 32 centerville. i will talk about the storm system working in here on wednesday coming up. good morning, to you.

on the roads, got a couple of work zones active until 5:00. shouldn't slow you down, looking light as far as volume is concerned. another live look at the traffic cameras, i-95, you are trouble free, on i-95, northbound side with all lanes open through arbutus passing the beltway in to the city. we are seeing calm, typical conditions for this time of morning as we get a look at 69 a and providence road. we will tweet any sudden changes, follow us at maryland traffic. maryland transit planners maybe making changes to the purple line. that line will connect to montgomery red line to the prince georges county green line. scheduled to open in 20 to, a popular recreation trail maybe changing plans. planners say the recreation trail isn't practical and expensive. mta ea jected two plans to run

the line alongside the trail. we heard the saying best is best for a baby. >> new guidelines explains why new mothers should be breast- feeding. find out who maybe getting the secret service's protection next. as we head to break, a live picture of downtown baltimore and inner harbor, we'll be right back.

national governor's association will continue meeting in dc today. president barack obama and vice president joe biden will deliver remarks. michelle obama and the vice president's wife are scheduled to speak. >> stephanie rawlings blake joining other lawmakers today as they discuss federal legislative priorities from baltimore taking place at 11:30

in a ceremonial room at city hall. >> peter fran chough will deliver savings initiatives. taxpayers can deposit portions of refunds in to two different bank accounts of one or more financial institutions. catholic based hospital ran in to financial problems a after a lawsuit controversy that flared up. the constitution could be purchased by a non-catholic hospital system. >> wattta had discomfort in his elbow and reevaluated in the next few days. prom season is around the corner. some girls don't have the much to afford what they want. >> one is working to change that. sherrie johnson has a preview of what is done to match the girls with the perfect dress.

>> this is all so exciting. i can remember prom season. it wasn't that long ago but a exciting time for teenagers. we are here at the baltimore marriott inner harbor, they are gearing up for the priceless gown project. this is an event to help girls afford their prom. some dresses are just amazing. i love things in pink. they are so cute and look at this, isn't this adorable. some of these are gently used and brand new dresses for the young ladies, absolutely adorable here. they have something for everyone, long, short, dark, light, whatever the girls need, they got it here. right now, i have leslie joining me live here. tell me a little bit more about what is going on, on saturday. >> we are so excited we are getting ready for the prom

season. we have an annual boutique, free gowns to high school students. you must be a junior or senior in the baltimore area. >> reporter: we have a beautiful model here. >> she is wearing a sampling of what he have, representing the dresses, we have long, short, we have full ball gowns, fully adorned with sequence, more simple. we have a variety for all of the students to choose from. >> reporter: why is this important? >> in this economy, more families are being affected. we wanted to be a vehicle for students to be able to celebrate milestones like the prom. we wanted to make this offering. >> reporter: some of the dresses are new and used. >> absolutely, a good majority of dresses will come from private business owner boutiques, a lot of them will be new, lot are privately donated by individuals. we wanted to have opportunity

to recycle the dress. know you are going to make a lot of young ladies happy. prom the very exciting. >> i get very excited with the students as well. it's something i look forward to every year. we are excited. we have lots of goodies as well. >> we will touch base a little bit at 5:00 as well as talk to the students here. this event takes place on saturday, march 3rd, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at the baltimore marriott inner harbor. they have hundreds of girls that turn out each year for the event. celeb 'tis were out in style for the biggest night. the academy awards held at the kodak theater. check out some of the fashions we are talking about. see them there on the scene. melissa, jona, sandra bullock, billy crystal returned to host

for the night. the best supporting actress, standing ovation for spencer spencer. hugo nearly swept the neck technical awards. -- swept the technical awards. best actress meryl streep. final award, was boise artist. researchers urging women to check out the make up and facial products, chemicals used could be toxic. find out what is in your products on the environmental working group. they rate the toxicity of 69,000 cosmetic products. the data base found oh la has a ten.

cancer patients facing shortages of life saving medicines, fda took steps to fill the gap. fda has sped up the approvals for new and foreign drug makers to ramp up the supply quickly. ending shortages of drox ill and another drug. 30 viles will be hitting hospitals by friday. 34,000 expected next month. >> this is the biggest crisis we have had for childhood cancer. >> the shortage is not over, there are still 8 critical cancer drugs in the government's 115 on the shortage list. >> the american academy of pediatrics says breast-feeding babies for six months is the healthiest option. reaffirming what they said for years now.

researchers are recommending 6 months should be a use of a combination between breast- feeding with a nutritional complimentary foods until the age of 12 months. study finds kids who play active video games will not necessarily be considered more physically active. researchers gave 87 kids a game council and two active video games or inactive games. results show the kids who were active game users were no more physically active than the ones playing the inactive video games. >> i think it's a starting point for a lot of kids who aren't active and don't have interest in sports, in a more traditional setting. i think you have to take that a step further and teach the children after they play the video games how important it is to find other things to be more active. >> the findings are in the

journal of pediatrics. things are back up and running this morning at the sacramento international airport. a terminal was temporarily shut down after five individuals walked past an un attended security check points. the breech occurred when a walk through metal detecter was left unattended for less than main. the transportation security officers have been removed from the job. passengers were robbed on vacation in mexico. one took a picture of the guy during the hold up. the group was starting on a nature walk off of the cruise when the robber ambushed the group and demanded belongs. carnival cruise will reimburs them and take care of everything they lost. democracy 2012, rick santorum, is expected begin receiving secret service protection today. newt gingrich requested the service protection last week,

and former massachusetts governor, mitt romney, received the protection and has been getting it since the beginning of february. herman cain received the same type in november but dropped out of the race in december. mitt romney has support of donald trump and his opponent is getting help from other reality stars. the douger family, from the tlc show, 19 kids and counting, scheduled to campaign for rick santorum no michigan ahead of the primary which is tuesday. mitt romney trying receive support from sports fans. he visited the daytona speedway sunday and rain postponed the race. the daytona 500 is the first time a woman will be driving. danica patrick who drove in the grand prix will be driving in her first daytona a hundred. martin o'malley is making news for sparring with new jersey governor chris christie. >> the heated exchange happened after both men appeared on face

the nation. take a listen. >> chris christie's brand of don rickel's leadership is unusual. to have a person who is fiscally responsible to make such poor choices and travels all over the country, it's entertaining but doesn't make for good governor nans i'm going to chime in here

now. all right, we have three systems to talk about. a clipper in here throughout the day. we will have a cold front trailing it. that's going to work in to our area, dropping the temperatures behind it for tomorrow. it will be a dry cold front. we have another system here to the south, bringing rain, we could see clouds trying to stretch in to the area. high pressure in control of our area. heading west, this is going be affecting our area in to your wednesday. we have a couple of dry days before the wet weather moves in the forecast for us. be prepared. in the meantime, enjoy today as we have high pressure in control. we will look for the cold front to pass through the year in to the afternoon. it will be dry. no brip precipitation wit. lots of sunshine. we put future trend in to motion. not a lot of change. we will be seeing more as we go in to wednesday. there is that next system.

temperatures will be too warm to support any type of snow. it will be all in liquid form. that temperature coming in around 60 degrees, it will be on the breezy side. let's get a check of the traffic with angela. how are the roads? roads are looking good. we found one thing to report, that's a stalled car, i-95 at the bw parkway. it is off to the left shoulder. speaking of the bw parkway, here is a live look at 695 and bw, moving well, on the parkway northbound, coming in from the jessup region. making your way through glen burnie, northbound lanes, trouble free to 695. back to you. dozens are hospitalized after a deadly train derailment. stay with us, how many people were hurt, what investigators are trying to figure out, we have the details ahead. compounds in pakistan is taken down.

who is known to have lived there when good morning maryland continues on this monday morning.

police are investigating after three people were killed in this train derailment near the canadian city of burlington, six cars derailed as the train headed to toronto. two train engineers and a trainee killed, 45 people sent to hospitals. demonstrators threw grenades a at u.s. military outpost in afghanistan. 7 personnel have been reported wounded and one protester killed. protests over the anger of the burning of korans at base last week. osama bin laden's compound will be no more. it's being torn down. a crap is knocking