estimates gave almost 400,000 to more than a dozen people arrested by police for failing to obey a police order. the judge said the arrests in the case wasn't the correct thing. protesters from the group defend life were on route holding signs and are confronted by a trooper who asked them to leave. he said they were disrupting traffic on the road and they needed to move. they didn't and got arrested. >> they violated our rights in several ways, they bra searched young girls, wouldn't let us make phone calls, wouldn't give us a lawyer. they knew they made a false arrest. >> reporter: they were released the next day and they sued, they say police violated their right when is they made them move from a public street that they held a public protest and weren't allowed due process after being arrested. a judge agrees. >> it's about the first

amendment, being able to display unpopular signs, it doesn't matter. the founding fathers had in mind was free speech whether the public agrees or not. it doesn't matter if they agree. they had it right and be were -- we were exercising our rights, it's amazing the police didn't understand what we were doing was perfectly legal. >> reporter: on wednesday the state board of estimates gave a settlement of 38 5,000 dollars to more than a dozen defend life members. police stand by their officers and the decision to make the arrest. they say the maryland state trooper who responded to the scene did so in response to calls driver who complained of individuals disrupting traffic at the intersection. they acted in good faith in the interest of public safety and in accordance from advice from the state attorney. now as part of the settlement police will have to receive

more training in first and 4th amendment rights and his group will have a final say on if the course of training used is enough. abc 2news. >> for the second time in as many weeks a gun goes off during a robbery at a convenience store and agents think the same man is behind both of them. we want you to look at this as a hooded man walks in to the royal farm store and then pulls out a silver gun. now during the robbery he fired a single warning shot and was gone in 60 seconds, businesses say the store make itself it for an easy target. they are more danger at getting robbed. >> reporter: it's believed the same man shot a customer who resisted giving up his wallet. if you have any information you are asked to call the fbi

violent task force. you could be eligible for a 2,500-dollar reward. police are trying to find a man who failed to register as a sex offender and didn't show up for court. we want to put up his picture. 25-year-old xavier higgins. he was convicted of rape in 2005. he has a tattoo on his left arm that says thugged out and a tattoo of a girl on his right arm. he has a tattoo on the right side of his neck. if you know anything about him call baltimore county police. or call crime stoppers or just go to the website at metro crime stoppers.organize. women occupied bank of america today telling the bank to walk a mile in our shoes for what this means and how it played out in our streets here

is lamont williams. >> the theme is walk a mile in our shoes. we are invisiting bank of america to walk a mile in our shoes. >> reporter: today women occupy staged a walk from the square at inner harbor to the bank of america building. >> bank of america as of june 2010 had over 88 billion dollars this foreclosures. they are the number one targetter of women for foreclosures, number one . that is just not accept able. >> reporter: according to the website protesters encouraged to mobilize with direct nonviolent action with the main goal of disrupting business as usual at a bank of america

branch. >> so many people have been foreclosed on. they don't know what that's like. they don't know what that is like. if they could just take one minute and think about what it would be like to have your home taken from you. >> reporter: as the protesters chanted in the lobby of the building a guard locked the doors and customers were turned away. the building's security called the police and a bank eventually closed for business. the protesters and i asked to leave. >> they have arrested --. >> ma'am you have been told to leave. >> --. >> it's private property. >> orderly line, do whatever you want >> reporter: they left feeling they left their mark. >> we did what we want, we shut it down.

downtown baltimore. >> the group said that more institutions could be targeted in the near future. let's go out live at the beltway green spring just west of the 83, we see break light there is on the right side of the event everybody slowing down. they want to stay outside. it was a beautiful day. little windy and rain is coming in. what do you have planned for it? wyatt is in the storm center with your first forecast. >> this is as warm as it gets, 70 degrees still in baltimore, topping out at 72, 70 washington, 66 easton. just a little key on the other side of the chesapeake. wind gusts as high as 40 dying off just a bit. now gusting to 30. we are tracking a line of showers in western harry land. these will make their presence felt late in to the night. 60s this evening.

warm and windy and tomorrow another mild day. we will talk about how things cool offful. >> all right. you know we -- are used to firefighters coming to help us and they usually fight the fire and then move on to the next job. not one volunteer fire company. after they finished fighting a fire on cutler harbor. >> reporter: today you could hear the sound wind chimes, tuesday morning it was a different story. >> a fire destroyed two homes and damaged a third in pasadena. nobody was hurt. to moved out of their home -- two moved in. >> at three in the morning we were all out here in our pajamas, no socks or shoes,

nothing. >> reporter: they got out because neighbors saw the flames and woke them up. if not for them, this story would have a different ending. >> i wouldn't be here. the smoke would have gotten to us and maybe the fire. >> reporter: as you can see there isn't much left of either home. by the time the firefighters arrived there wasn't much they could do to contain the blaze. since they couldn't save the house they want to save the families, the volunteer fire company trying to collect food and clothing to help a families whose homes were destroyed. >> it's not about the -- it's about helping people. the community and everybody has to work together. >> reporter: they did a outreach program during the holidays and now decided to do this year round. >> this is our turn to get back to them. they need our help and we are lending a helping hand. >> reporter: in pasadena, don

harrison. listen, let's jump on the band wagon and help out. we have the donation drive set up now. you is bring food, money and clothes, bring it to the fire station at fort smallwood road and you can contact the fire department. here is the number. you can go to the website and get more information. the state of maryland will be asking a judge to keep the state's gun permit law in place while they appeal the ruling calling unconstitutional. officials filed a motion today hoping to stay the judge's ruling the interest of our safety. he ruled earlier this week if you wanted to carry a gun you had to show a good reason for that. he thinks that's unconstitutional. instead of budget panel has approved changes to the governor's budget but maybing more cuts. the committee approved several

changes including putting in proposed split of teacher pension costs. the committee included cuts totaling $266 million to take place should the teach ripening shift not get enough sport on the senate floor and the panel approved repeal the tax cut to make up for revenue that have run into opposition. health officials, we will tell you about the woman with three member that have all died from a illness and how they are improving. what it comes to smoking teens doing it at scary rates. how many are lighting up cigarettes and why starting so early only makes quitting harder. . >> [inaudible] dry and windy. >> and winter isn't over but it feels like spring. especially for anyone with allergies. yet allergy season has started and will last a little longer.

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the country but every day 1200 people die from smoking. for everybody who dies they are replaced by two young smokers, more than 80% of them start smoking before the age of 18. more than 600,000 and 3 million high school student students smoke. >> the younger a child is when they tried cigarettes the more likely they are to get and stay addicted. >> and the report is the first look at youth tobacco use from in nearly two decades. >> it's early march and here you are. your eyes itching and sneezing, it's allergies, they are arriving sooner. expect them also to be more severe and last longer this year. >> its mild weather is making the flowers bud earlier. >> they are going up at

earlier times as compared to the past decades. republican count that normally go up in midmarch have started to go up in february and because of that a doctor with the asthma program said you can expect them to last longer be more severe. >> itchy watery eyes, they have -- it's normally known as hay fever. sneezing, run requesting nose. >> reporter: if the pain is getting the best of you he said allergy shots can offer longterm relief in getting a skin test to pinpoint it also helps. if it's not going to be painful the worst thing that you can expect is that it'll be itchy. >> reporter: you should also be mindful of what it bad. >> when it's really dry and windy if you want to jog outside for example try to avoid that in the middle of the day and at the end of the day -- after you spent time outside

take a good shower and wash off the pollen. >> reporter: steps to cope when from is a lot of pollen in the air. >> did you have trouble talking on the cell phone? you may be able to blame it on the solar storm. it hit today and flares interact with the magnetic field. while there have not been reports of major problems experts say the storm isn't over and in the meantime the storm could produce very powerful, the northern lights, just showing them a couple months ago. >> yeah. we see -- interesting solar activity over the last year. interesting -- my wifi late last night i was having problems with it. i normally never do and -- i'm not say that it was directly related but --. >> all right. >> i won't trust the gps.

take a look outside. plenty of wind. solar activity. wind and warmth. how is that? you like that? temperature wise we are sitting very warm right now in fact. as we take a look the numbers you can see if we can get them to come up. 70 degrees, winds southwest at 16 visibility unrestricted. annapolis, watch the camera, just getting abused by wind gusts over 40 miles an hour on the river. you see the chop on the open chesapeake. bay bridge, the view from hemingway and then we shift the camera to check out this sunset and a beautiful finish at kent island. windy, windy and warm. the radar here is where the activity is now. it's overcome bertha land. significant shower activity. reaching through the mountains here. west of hagerstown. we will continue to track this

weather as we go far. i -- for now in all going to stay west. a slow moving line will come in as we go through the overnight and we expect this activity to come in past 10:00 through about 2:00 a.m. for baltimore. easton, cambridge and points east. 28, that's the current wind gust. we have seen gusts to 40 a day. they are starting to go down. temperatures slow to cool off because this is a south southwesterly wind that continues to bring up the very warm air temperatures, north and west. tracking line. the first showers pinpointing in western maryland toward cumberland. the more significant line still well west to have the south east ohio and the western edge of west virginia. that arriving later this evening. it's interesting, for early march in terms of the contrast

in air masses, get the warm d windy, very above average temperature over the east coast right now but in the midwest its cooler than average and it's an extreme contrast. i would -- also look for the potential for more thunderstorm activity have the overnight arrival more like lie we will see isolated thunderstorms at most and here is the timing for you. you can see through ten, still dry around here. maybe a few showers moving in to the north and west. overnight though, as we go this to friday morning that's where we get more rain around here in clearing out rapidly by midmorning. overnight 45, showers breezy, few thunderstorms, this high temperature of 58 coming early in the day tomorrow. 11, 12:00 and then temperatures start to fall through the afternoon. the winds start to rank out of the northwest. not as gusty but still windy and tomorrow night down to 30 degrees. seven day forecast, the outlook showing basically a significant cooling trend right through

saturday. we strug toll get out of the 40s. then sunday we spring forward one hour and 70 be by next week. >> the baltimore blast get ready for another playoff run. the teams practicing for the start of the indoor soccer league playoffs that start this weekend. the blast has clinched home field advantage after finishing on top fort eastern division and now the focus is getting the job done and winning a 6th title and their first since 2009. >> you want to try to win every game you play in the regular season but you know every team's goal, every athlete's goal is to get playoffs. that starts saturday night. >> danny boy, i tell you what they play the lancers in game one. 7:35 saturday night at the first mariner arena and then game two on monday up there in rock chester. they have been named

honorary chair couple. this event races money to find a cure for als. oj who played for the cfl stallions and then joined the ravens in their season in a form erin ten with abc 2news, found out he had als in 2007. never showed him down. as he goes to work for the ravens front office every day and this -- the it'll be run on may 5th and the money raised will go to research. all right baltimore here we go. another nice day coming up tomorrow but wyatt will be right back.

. before be go we have a look at tonight. >> it this is something for everybody. we all lead stressful lives, eat poorly, don't work out enough and are overworked. some people are turning to professionals to get a life makeover. plus sex education without the sex? some want to pub for an abstinence only program. >> will have news with the news tonight at 11. we will see you tonight. investment a good one.

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