the shooting is under investigation. crews spent the day cleaning up after a massive fuel spill. fire officials say a train -- tank ruptured on the track just before about 9:30. authorities say the spill isn't a danger to anyone but it disrupted rail traffic. the department of the environment is handling the clean up as well as the investigation. realtors net annapolis rallying against a plan that would cap mortgage interest deductions. the cap is part of the budget proposal to reduce income tax reductions for high income earners. they argued it would just make it harder for existing homeowners and discouraged new ones. and a piece of legislation called the rat control bill was introduced. it was asked so consider banning other states bringing rats into maryland. some other states have put laws that don't let rats be killed

or released sot bill prevents them from ending up here. tomorrow in annapolis, the governor is set to sign the same sex marriage bill into law. it would go into effect next january but there is already an effort underway to fight it. a group called the maryland marriage alliance said it'll collect the needed 56,000 signatures to force the measure to a vote on the ballot coming up this november. taking a look at the storeys around the nation, not only was it a cheap one but a worker at a fish market in kansas said someone left a tip that was offensive. a customer left two cards on the restaurant's counter reading you have been paid a friendly visit by the kkk, should we pay you a real visit? the owner was shocked. >> they have a right to feel how they want to. we have no right to take that but just keep it to themselves.

>> i have been a big supporter of racial integration and i can't understand anybody in this day and age that would do that sort of thing. >> local police are investigating the incident. a graduate at texas a and m is running for student body president and despite the fact he is -- a united states citizen he has a lot of support. jose luis came here illegally in the 7th grade. he said back then his home was a bridge and he used to sleep under newspapers. he still hopes to be a united states citizen one day but right now said he won't try because it would mean he has to leave the country first. school officials say they are about two hundred undocumented students at the university. it only happens once every four years and no we aren't talking about a president alley election, we are talking about leap day and for the last 18

plus hours jamie has been hanging out at the hospital as this year's batch of leap babies welcomed in. how many you got? >> reporter: we have four. four babies have been born on this leap day in 2012 and two more are still in labor. we don't know if they will deliver tonight or wait until tomorrow but it's a long -- a long process here. it all started here this morning at 2:33 with quite a surprise. a woman had to call the police when her water broke. she is delivering daniel and guess who is the life safer? her mother. her mother was on the phone with the police getting coaxed, told what to do. she followed instructions and laid a emotional kiss on her grandson. she is the one who is the hero here and after diedra delivered

at home she brought her in to the hospital so she is the first, daniel is, the first baby leap year baby of 2012. now listen to this. daniel, his brother was born on christmas eve, his other brother on new year a day and his sister was born some day in april. we have had a baby born to a mother who had a birthday today so now we have back to back leap days, and then tonight we have a lot of women who have already checked in and -- i would call it like leap year phobia, they don't want to deliver today. dads we had a dad come out and just broke down, crying emotion, hugging his mother and mother-in-law and father and father in law. broke down in tease. we will show you that and then we walked back and it was funny because the nurse was coming in with the baby and said do you know how to change diapers and

he said no. he will learn. it's a lot of emotions as you can well imagine. four babies, four babies born, two more waiting, could happen tonight we will be here for the duration as we look at the leap year babies born at the hospital. >> all right. thank you. great work out there. as we celebrate leap day and leap year, some researchers over at the university think they have come up with a way to get rid of it. they have a new calendar that basically makes every 12 month period the same to the one before it. if christmas is on a sunday this year, which it does it would be a sunday forever year to come. the calendar would give march, june, september and december 31 days. all others would have just 30. you can't get rid of leap year. people look forward to that.

coming up a police officer witnessed terrifying events every day. this one no different. officers are called after a woman is seen trying to jump from a bridge with her baby in her arms. how the officers stepped in. plus, a buzzer beater from indiana that is worth showing you. you know he made the shot but just how far was the throw? we will give you the details. stick around.

. all right caught obtain tonight a police officer in china jumps into action to stop a mother from jumping off a bridge with her baby in her arms. drivers called the police after seeing the woman on the ledge of a bridge with the child. the officer goes up on a bike and up to the woman and just like she is about to jump he rushes in and pulls her back toward the road. the mother and child were taken to a police station for questioning. family problems sparked the attempt. a horse in a sticky situation. a mom and her daughter were riding along avalon beach when the horse started sinking. it's a race against time to get him before the tide came in. they had it sedate the horse th

tractor. took three hours, the 18-year- old horse was not hurt. a basketball player helped lead his team to a big win with a great shot and it was caught on camr. its right there. they were tied at 83 with rival north central with four seconds left. the guard gary harris shot the ball from 40 feet away. banking it in for the win just as the buzzer sounded. the final score, 86-83. he is going pro. when it comes to get age good night's rest for many it seems impossible. forgetet about the screaming children and the snoring husband, how about your job? we have the results a new study. and romney wins again. we are live in phoenix with the continuing coverage of the campaign. we will find what is next in the race to the white house. well, online dating services can get kind of expensive.

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. whether you come home tired from a long day at work or stay up all night worrying about tomorrow the jobs often affect our sleep. allison with more on which occupations give you the best rest and which ones may have you tossing and turning. >> reporter: crying children, traffic, what you ate for dinner can all impact how well you sleep at night. a new study if retail massers source, finds that your job can also play a role. they found interesting connections between what occupation you have and how much sleep you get by analyzing data from a survey done every year by the cdc. take a look at the risk of the shortest sleeper, home health aides and lawyers, followed by

police officers, doctors and paramedics, economists round out the ton five and you can see the connection between sleep and stress. who gets the best sleep? loggers wake up well rested, hairstylists also sleep through the night, sales reps along with bartenders and construction workers, the theme here, stable hours, and low stress but for the loggers which can be among the most dangerous jobs in the country. they say it help itself they work outside. regardless of occupation we will all loose sleep in a week and a half. don't forget that daylight saving time starts sunday march 11th when clocks spring ahead by one hour so we loose sleep. >> now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> all right. a check of maryland's most

powerful radar, you can see it's pretty active. especially in the western half of the state and that is where the weather is now. zoom out just a little bit. give you some perspective and a lot of the heavy rain down through petersburg and into winchester virginia, this is the next round of rain. we are seeing light to moderate showers over beltway, north and west of the downtown area and up 83. we will continue to track this precipitation another light round for now, but again the heavier stuff moving in out of the west later on this -- evening. take a look. wet roads at the inner harbor. pratt street, tough traffic at times, humidity nearly 100%. more rain continuing through the afternoon and evening and we saw it all day long dousing the lens of the weatherbug camera here in belaire. it was a wet day, a soaking kind of day and a chilly day in

the state capitol. one more stop in frederick today further west where they had the clearing, at least stop age in the rain earlier and then the rain coming back down in the last hour or so. really, kind of a ugly day to wrap up the month of february on this leap day the 29th. we have 54 in easton, 41hagerstown. winds are light and changing, we think they will pick up out of the south. high temperatures in the low to mid50s tomorrow. we had about 12, 15 degrees with some of the numbers, lue get the midand upper 60s on the map late in the day tomorrow. in the meantime we have to get through a chilly and wet evening and quite a bit of rain, the final sort of line with this system but quite a bit of rain over the next -- call it two to four hours depending on where you are watching from. the eastern shore you will be last to clear. places like carroll. you will clear out faster maybe to 90 minutes or so.

through the overnight, we will get the precipitation out of here, the triple points. the core of the storm system will pass over. mild air will still be poised to move in and we look for a significant warm up. here is the timing. rain on and off through the evening, tapering off to showers by 11:00. the heart of the storm system, could be breezy by tomorrow. a rapid warm up and then tomorrow night a cold front comes through, dry, that will mean a cooler friday and then friday night into saturday. another system could bring showers into the first half of the saturday. we track that closely on the weekend forecast. 45, with scattered showers ending out there tonight. tomorrow the two degree guarantee, 65, again quite the warm up from today's numbers and then tomorrow night, cooling off as the wind shifts out of the north and west. here is the seven day forecast looking ahead and we find the numbers bouncing around here. 57 on friday, 60s as we go into

start and sunday. you know really the chance for rain after tonight, comes back in just briefly friday night into the first half saturday. next week we will trend cooler but still hard to complain for the first days of march. you can't call that coming in like a lion. i think it's good stuff. >> march 21st spring ? >> yeah. spring solstice. >> maybe early. >> feels like it. >> winter never happened. thank you. now to the campaign. last night romney took home two victories in the gop race. torry is live tonight from phoenix. it was a good night for the former governor. lot of speculation about michigan but he won it after all. >> reporter: it was a great night for him. he got back some of the lost footing after the big victories last night here in arizona and in michigan as well.

today santorum is also trying to it claim a victory. you have to think about michigan. the faulks about how he was to competitive in romney's home state, then about the way the delegates were awarded, meaning that romney and santorum both walk away with the same number of delegates. now everything moves onto super tuesday. have you romney in ohio, santorum in tennessee and they are talking about last night. >> well it was a big night last night for me. >> the people who said the economy and jobs were their it number one issue voted for me overwhelmingly. >> we won michigan by coming out of michigan with -- 15 delegates out of 30 in romney's home state. being out spent, 6-1. >> reporter: so santorum essentially saying he feels like it was a tie in michigan and now he believes this is really a two man race.

>> everybody talking about super tuesday but a couple of races happen before then. >> reporter: yeah. two races, tonight we will get more results if you can believet. that would be from wyoming. states held caucuses for about the last three weeks and i have the updated results. 83% of them are reporting, romney is leading santorum, 41% to 31%. you have to remember washington state is holding its caucuses on saturday. ron paul is making a huge push there. is he releasing a new ad called three of a kind. watch this. >> one is a serial hypocrite who lobbied for freddie mac before the housing crisis, another a counterfeit conservative who opposes right to work and final aly flip- flopper on all sides >> reporter: he is not holding back anymore. he is the only candidate who doesn't have a win in any of

the states. he hopes washington state will give him just that. >> pulling out all the stops. live for us from phoenix. thank you. shifting gears its been more than a month since the cruise ship ran aground off the coast of italy but leaders are taking up the issue today. the house transportation committee held a hearing this afternoon to talk about what lessons can be taken from the disaster where 25 people died. experts, coast guard members and two passengers from the cruise line were on hand for the meeting. coming up, a council woman got off easy after police chases her down at speeds over 100-milance hour. why people are questioning her and the officers. >> i could say the same myself. i like having [inaudible] with age difference. >> and imagine celebrating a

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. well the board says red but wall street is wrapped up it's best february in 14 years. again even though there was

some red. the nasdaq touched a 13,000 today before slipping back down, finishing nearly 20 points lower. the dow lost 53 points and the s&p500 fell seven points. in consumer news tonight apple is hitting a milestone. their stock has now reached $500 billion making them one of the most valuable companies at any point in history. they are worth more than several countries including poland and sweden. get ready for the i-pad 3. you knew it was coming. it could be released march 7th. the companye mailed san francisco reporters to a special event. it says we have something you really have to see and touch. they won't say for sure so we will have to wait and see. and a new standard could be featured in cars. by 2014 the national highway traffic safety administration is asking congress to make back

up cameras required on all cars. according to kids and cars.org two children are killed every week tew to back accidents. and when it comes to the best car maker consumer report social security s is give that to suburu say praising it's for his redesign, mazda was number two and toyota rounded out the top three. united states saying there are good new designs but scores dragged down by some of the older models. new moms and dads at the hospital are dreaming about bringing their babies hope. we will check back in with jamie on the news at six which starts right now. >> now abc 2news at six. >> a 5-year-old allegedly beaten to death by her father.

what police say may have set this tragedy in motion. what would you expect to find -- expect the fine to be for speed something a councilwoman it was just a warning. what police are saying about it. >> i love it. i wouldn't want it any other day. >> what are the roads in a mom and daughter share the same birthday and it just so happens to be leap day. we start off with a weather alert. been a miserable day. rainy, wet, dreary. looking over the inner harbor right now and as we look at 70, just west of the baltimore beltway you see traffic moving, the road still has to be wet. how much of this we will have to deal with or could it get worse, let's check in with wyatt in the storm center. its been a miserable day. >> we have been getting waves of rain, just very