dangerous chemicals, secured hughes the cabinet locks. it's time to start crunching the numbers, city department said presents the budget after getting orders from the mayor to make it more efficient. first up public safety. roosevelt is here with more. >> reporter: all city departments will have to do this. the police and fire represent it would have the largest unions, a lot is still up to negotiation was those unions but the city said being efficient will benefit the union as well. >> first the police department, staff and -- the department will continue to hire new officers. they are installing more than 550 cameras, they want to merge the 911 center with the call center. the deputy chief told the board of estimates that one thing that could affect the department's bottom line is a number of officers they loose.

those with five to ten years service are being lured by other jurisdictions. >> we believe it could be a potentially as low as 16 and as high as 100. we could see a rate this year which could be significantly higher than we have seen in past years and averaging 200 and get 60 more between those important years, the five to ten years that could have a significant impact. it could be closer to 250 if the numbers higher 200 -- rate could be higher than that. >> reporter: next up the fire department with more than 80% of all calls involving ems they said they can eliminate three fire companies, which he said won't involve closing fire houses but eliminating extraen gains, they will be reassigned there will be no lay off. they are hoping the savings will come from restructuring

how firefighters in the city work. from a four shift hour week to a three shift work. >> they are in discussion was their union over a three shift model. there was a report we leased done by the state of pennsylvania looking at the philadelphia fire department and one of the recommendations there was to consider going to a three shift model to free up resources to do some things they need to do. this isn't just me, this is happening around the area. >> reporter: the chief said they are proposing a 20% pay increase spread out over three years to raise pay though according to the union firefighters who have to work about 30% more and could re-- that could result in them having less time off and with more demand for ems that's a good possibility. abc it news. >> and first responders from all over maryland are asking

drivers to move over when they see police and emergency crews on the road. after two incidents in january where officers were injured a new campaign was launched to remind them how important it is that you move over. part of the campaign they -- they will display a decal. >> hard to see early today. that fog was thick and took a long time to burn off. just one view from townsend. finally the sun cameo. it was something this morning. tim wise in the low 70s. dc and easton. cool their dover, the humidity still high. yes this will set the stage once again for potential fog to develop out there overnight into tomorrow morning. keep that in mind for friday morning. 70s this evening for the next few hours looking good. warm. we will talk about how the weekend unfolds, there are big changes coming up.

>> thank you. >> a 1-year-old dog found on the side of the san diego road with a gun shot to the chest is getting a new family. the shelter named him chance. he is still recovering from gun shot he is headed home to a new family. they saw his story and just had to help out. his previous owner saw the story on the news but -- police still don't know who shot him. >> this should be a family member. this is like a child. this is a defenseless creature. to have someone know something and not report its it's galling. >> his new home comes with two children, 6 and 3. a cat in boston is still alive after falling the 19th floor of an apartment building yesterday. workers say the cat named sugar only has a bit of a bruising on

her lungs but all the bones are fine. the baltimore city kids looking to play baseball the future got brighter. kicking off the second season of the tournament baltimore city council president jack young -- also announced major financial campaign to improve the city. we were on hand for the big announcement. >> reporter: with the city bulging, city officials and special guests, baltimore council president jack young kicked off the second yearly president's cup tournament. >> the cup a student athletes here today will build lasting friendships that pass race and class. >> reporter: the tournament features teams both public and private high schools in the city and ends with a championship game at camden a. long with the games a major fundraising campaign to improve

a local baseball field has raised $83,000. >> they are -- pleased to participate and match the $83,000. >> it's over due. you need to maintain the field, provide equipment. probably -- new infield and [inaudible] baseline fence repairs. >> the great jackie robinson's daughter works for major league baseball to foster youth development. >> he would love to -- meet the young men and see this kind of tournament going on. it's a wonderful thing. >> the young players appreciate the college. >> that thing is great. to be able to meet new faces and guy that can compete just as good as you. >> we normally run into -- bring everybody together. it's a special plan. >> i had some of my colleagues

ask me how they can get involved. after we get the fine tune in baltimore we will look at -- throughout the state. >> reporter: in baltimore,. >> and the president's cup will kick off this saturday with a ball field renovation day and joseph lee park and tournament action is march 31st. frat boys strutting their stuff on a college campus in style high heels. why they put the very public walk in women's shoes. they look miserable. romney trying to erase an embarrassing comment from his top aide. how a retro toy is taking center stage.

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70s. hugey rel, cloudy, skies clear and i wanted to show you down in delaware today -- the beach still -- you see the fog airtimes coming in off the ocean and we get clearing eventually people laying out on the beach. a really mixed weather situation i have to say and as we look at maryland's radar, tomorrow, tonight and saturday its hit or miss all day. the better chance saturday afternoon. temperatures now running in the upper 70's. winds mainly east-northeast. have you to remember that brings the wind less off the basement less off the atlantic and more out of new jersey and northern delaware and so this is actually a slightly warmer breeze though it's a north type breeze, northeast it's not as cool as that breeze we get the from the east and southeast. humidity still extremely high. 90% dover. this will be another one of the nights where we can see fog

developing after sun and the certainly toward the midnight hour expecting patchy, even patchy dense fog, we are optimistic or hopeful it won't be as widespread or long lasting, here is the main storm system we are tracking have been so for days. putting down heavy rain, thunderstorm activity and alabama, up through the tennessee valley, this is a slow moving system, so no real impact we don't think in the midatlantic into -- the weekend and -- probably saturday night into sunday. warm southerly flow, keeping the flood gates over for the warm humid air to the south funneling in to the northeast including certainly baltimore and across maryland. there is that watt maker starting to edge into saturday morning. the best chance for rain probably holds off to sunday for the core of the system should pass over the area. this thing moving slow but putting down a lot of rain.

eastern oklahoma. overnight 55, partly cloudy, tomorrow the two degree guarantee, 80 after that patchy morning dense fog and then tomorrow night down to 56, here is your seven day forecast and again the outlook showing a consistent trend here with a -- somewhat of a cool off saturday but the main cool off sunday into monday and the chance for rain could linger saturday into early monday before we dry out and cool off early next week. >> thank you. and now to the campaign, romney's campaign is trying to move past some embarrassing comments but his rivals aren't letting it go. we have the latest from washington. >> reporter: i know right? you can believe it? this is still in the news. romney who probably hoped he would be celebrating about a big victory in illinois. that's not the case. is he still trying to move past this. his campaign even had a new ad in wisconsin.

>> the principals of business, and a high time to bring them to washington. >> reporter: he is still fielding questions about a comment on campaign strategy. one his top adviser made wednesday. >> you hit a reset buton, everything changes, it's like the etch a sketch. you can shake it up and restart. >> reporter: gingrich and santorum quickly pounced arguing romney is a flip- flopper on the issues and can't be trusted. today they continued their attacks. >> serious about changing washington dc, can't use the etcha sketch. >> if you are going to be different -- with the state mens we he have instead of taking a risk of what may be the etyha sketch candidate. >> reporter: it's take two for romney. his wife is trying to come to the rescue. >> of course it makes a great media, it's a distraction, it's

a distraction because when he are talking about is an economic message, it's a jobs message. >> reporter: who knows how much longer we will see this etyh aquation the campaign trail -- what you have going on is romney is starting to pull ahead in this gop primary for the other candidates. they are trying to slow him down. >> candidate what is he up to today? i haven't seen him out and about. no public events. >> no public events. he is campaigning in a different sentence today he was here in washington dc. romney going up to capitol hill. so far senator demitt said he won't endorse romney but he would be excite fire department he were the anymore knee. that's a step in the 9 right direction. also romney met with some of the lawmakers in wisconsin.

>> all right. live in washington for us tonight. romney may not be out and about but ann romney the latest figure to weigh in on a controversial comment that after robert deniro made. he reportedly asked now do you really think our country is ready for a white -- [inaudible] last night ann was asked about that. >> that's take for what it is. we are all overreacting to somebody saying making it so difficult which means we have to watch every word that we say. we can't be spontaneous, we can't be funny. i will tell new politics -- the fastest way to get in trouble is to make a joke. i think he has just learned that. >> she may be right. he has apologizes for the joke issuing a statement saying his remarks are spoken with jest and weren't meant to offend orem brass anyone.

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. we have breaking news out of los angeles tonight. core coroner has -- whitney houston died by drowning but heart disease and cocaine were also factors in the death. he she was found in the bathtub at the hotel room where she was staying the night before the

grammy awards, a spokesman said the autopsy indicated she died of -- she was a chronic cocaine user. nearly 40% of american women have never been married. open fewer are still with the first person they married. that's according to a new report from the national center for health stats focused on first marriages and how often they last. researchers say the data shows more are delaying marriage and many cases deciding to just live together. it shows only 52% of women first marriages survived more than 20 years. starbucks just finished rolling out the juice bar and are branching into the energy drink market. they are calling it starbucks refreshers and will be available next month. they call it a carbonated drink for energy without the coffee

taste. the drink will be sold at starbucks and places where competition like red bull are sold. and it's a big day for fans of the angry birds game as they released it's newest offering called the angry birds space. they have now cool super powers and looks and their enemies are space pigs. something else to get. coming up if you enjoy the sun i hope you did because it won't be around much this weekend. why you may want to make indoor plans on the news which starts right now. . >> now, abc 2news at six. i'm don harrison here in annapolis. there was a lot of noise at the state house. those got some foam trouble. i will tell you about it right here on abc2. >>