176 million, getting struck by light lightning. all most likely a pipe deem but a dream none the -- dream nonetheless. some are well aware of the odds but not the actual chance they are banking on but the idea that spending a dollar allows them to dream for a few days or a few hours. >> hilton head, here we come >> reporter: now the what if equation in this, is the real draw to this historic jackpot. just one more odd to put it in perspective, the orioles have a

exponentially better odds at winning the world series than you do winning that jackpot. who doesn't dream of finally seeing that? good luck. brian kuebler, abc2 news. when the jackpot is this huge, everyone plays because when it's only 100 million or so, maybe it's not worth it. i don't know who would think taway. no matter how high the payout goes the odds stays the same. why do we get amped up when it gets this high? our team coverage continues with joce sterman. >> it could be all about how our brains are wired. we have been thinking about what we would do with $640 million jackpot. psychologists say the rush takes over, we think about the fact that even if it's just a tiny chance, a chance to win big. not only do you get the money, you get the fame, you may not want that, it comes down to numbers. you probably have your favorites. the lucky numbers you hope will help you win big.

psychologists say they are just numbers. >> we pick our numbers. those numbers haven't turned up in a year, they are bound to come up now. the odds those numbers aren't changing at all. >> that being said, though, if you have your favorite numbers or your favorite place to get your ticket, you never know, you could have the piece of paper worth more than $600 million. if you do, congrats, if not, better luck next time. the drawing is tonight at 11:00. i will be watching, joce sterman, abc2 news. this is most certainly tonight's hot topic, we want to know what would you do with $640 million in the big jackpot. even with cash payout it's more than the largest in history of the universe. leave your thoughts on facebook at abc2news.com. a group of interstate counterfeiters are trying to strike it rich. authorities say they struck

five businesses in harford alone. jeff hager has more on the suspects and their scheme. >> reporter: caught on camera, a man dressed in black, cool, calm, collected and a counter fitter. he passed off a fake hundred dollars bill at the festival in bel air and a female accomplice returned twice only to be turned away. >> to do it a second time, that's what surprised everybody. one time, you expect it in retail. more than once, wow, she has guts to come in twice, two days later and not to change her appearance or anything. >> reporter: police believe there are three different women acting in cohertz with the man that struck several businesses, making off with more than $1500 in cash. at kitchen and company , the woman tried to buy a couple of cupcake tins for $3.16, with one of the fake c-notes. >> they would present $100

bills. the primary interest is getting a large quantity of cash back. >> reporter: captain jim of the harford county sheriff's office, shows us where the bills come up short. >> here is a true $100 bill. as you can see from this water mark it's detailed. if you look at benjamin franklin. the counterfeit bill, it's not as detailed, it's cartoonish looking and you can almost see digital pixels. this is counterfeit. >> reporter: workers back at the kitchen and company noted other flaws. >> we felt the paper, felt weird, it didn't feel the same as normal bill. it was missing a water mark. >> reporter: the suspects changed their appearance their clothing hair styles and sunglasses, as they move from one targeted business to the next. jeff hager, abc2 news. >> the local police are working with the secret service to track down these folks in addition to the small

purchases, police say the same counter fitters bought large items in virginia and west virginia, only to return the merchandise at stores here in maryland. would you have ever thought of doing such a thing at age 9? listen to this. city police arrested a bunch of elementary school children that went on a violent spree of beating up other children. it happened where police say they had to go to the children's school and took them out in handcuffs. three of them, 9-year-old girls and an 8-year-old boy are charged with assault. christian schaffer is working on the story tonight and bring you more tonight on abc2 news at 11:00. developing tonight, baltimore police are asking for your help after one a woman was attacked in her own bed. the woman was sleeping in her home on frisbee in north baltimore and told police the man came in and attacked her. the man was wearing golf-type gloves and a homemade mask. anyone with information is asked to call city police.

down to glen burnie. police are looking for a man who rgt targeted a woman in a grocery store parking lot. she was walking to her car in the 7900 block of crane highway where the man attacked her and grabbed her purse. she was scraped up but didn't have to go to the hospital. investigators searched the area but didn't find the man. they are looking for him tonight. two children were among five people who suffered serious injuries after an sufficient crashed in to a dump truck. it was on liberty road. the suv rolled over once. all five of these injured were in the vehicle. a 3 yield and 18-month-old were among those injured. new developments on the recent ruling over the virginia tech massacre, a judge jove turned a finding from the department of education that the you've's response violated law. the school no longer has to pay $55,000, following the ruling

the virginia tech did not respond quickly enough. despite waiting two hours to send out an alert from the first shooting, the judge says that was not an un reasonable amount of time. the shooting was the deadliest in modern u.s. history. temperatures right now hovering around 50 degrees as clouds hovering with us as well. 52 if you want to pop up to york, pennsylvania. 53 in the capitol. temperatures will stay around 50 degrees, maybe slip a little bit in to the upper 40s before they move up dug the overnight hours. now, we have a little bit of rain mainly to the south of us, we saw this morning the clouds hanging strong, we are seeing a little bit of clearing taking place to the west. you may get a few moments of sunshine before the sun sets. you can see some rain developing right there towards western maryland, that will move in to the baltimore area during the late evening hours and continue through the overnight hours, we sl l have the chance of rain, even

through tomorrow morning. this evening, clouds will stick with us, a little bit of clearing here or there. 40s is what we are expecting, upper 40s, showers late and they will continue through tomorrow. how can it affect the beginning of your workweek, we have warming temperatures, do we have rain? we have it in the seven-day forecast coming up. it's a official, almost post time for the preakness. count down has begun. today it was opening meet in baltimore. infield poster boy keg sis made a reappearance with new side kick, uni carl. preakness sales are off the charts. they are expecting one of the biggest crowds this year ever. >> it's just a real exciting time. we have done a lot of things as you said before the preakness. along with the greatest races in the world.

>> 137th running happens as always on the third saturday in may this year it's may 19th. you may see people wearing green throughout april, it's not the environment that they are supporting. it's about organ donation. donate live maryland is pushing the be seen in green to bring awareness to the importance of being a donor. this mission is very personal for one volunteer. >> my mom passed away five years ago. she was an organ donor and helped save five people's lives. i got in contact with donate life and been volunteering ever since. >> the initiative runs through the month of april. coming up have you heard the term curb appeal, means the way your house looks from the street may help you sell it. we have easy improvements to add value to your home. about improving your health, too, the four things to

do now today, this second, to give you a healthy future when abc2 news comes back. a little bit of rain moving through, some popped up in to western maryland. we will will see that move in to the baltimore area, more coming up.

annapolis, gray skies. never got any good sun today. a lot of folks on the water. loren will have a look at the forecast coming up in two

minutes or so. take a look around the outside of your house, do you like what you see? if not you are alone, homeowners are planting, landscaping or hard scaping projects as bill tells us tonight in the angie's list, adding curb appeal will add to the value. >> reporter: yard work,ist one of the last ways they would like to send a beautiful weekend but it's an easy way to adds to lue without costing you money. >> if you've been neglecting your yard, you can plant nice flowers, improving your value. >> reporter: if you are word about keeping your flowers watered or replanting the bed every year, there are low maintenance options to help. >> my recommendations on those are planting maybe roses, knockout roses, they are not quite drought resistant but handle dry weather fairly good and give you color. you can get them in a variety of colors. >> reporter: in addition to

cleaning up the beds, trim back the should bees and plants and the tree -- shrubs and plants and the tree can be a great investment. >> what consumers overlook is landscaping can actually add protection and shade to your house, improving your energy efficiency. >> reporter: in the summer the shade will absorb the sun's heat lowing our cooling bill. trees and fences can be used as wind breaks, saving money on heating bill. >> for more on tips on improving the curb appeal, head to abc2news.com, check out the angie's list link under the listyle tab. while you are on abc2 news, check out the weather tab. winds right now, you can see

them, they are moving in some areas, but not too bad, they are coming out of the south and moving up towards the east. they will continue to do that and they will get breezy as we see the fronts move through the area. those fronts won't move through until type and tomorrow. here is a look at bel air, you can see those clouds holding on strong, maybe a little bit of a break. they got sunshine today. mostly those clouds are moving through and some places seeing a little bit of clearing taking place in some areas. mainly, we will see the clouds hanging with us as the next system moves through. this popped up quickly. see it in western maryland. it's packing a punch, heavy downpours, moderate rain, i don't think there is thuppedder or lightning, -- thunder or lightning, as it's moving towards us, it could get strength and isolated thunderstorm in the cell. locally heavy rains through with the cell moving on it's

way to the east. that's in the baltimore area, moving east at 50 miles an hour. it's flying across the state. right now, temperatures, 50 degrees at the inner harbor. 52 frederick. 51 hagerstown. 55 win chester. warmer temperatures to the south. it will be a little bit more breezy as we go through tomorrow night. systems clear the area and we start to see the backlash of those winds. satellite and radar, there are the clouds, see there, holding on. here is the system, popped up out of nowhere. that's where what the systems are going to do. what i'm concerned about is this rain here, that line of rainstorms is what we call training, it's getting bigger, it'ser growing as it moves across the mountains, it may lose the luster but regain strength on the other side of the mountains to the east side of the mountains and once it gets to baltimore during the hate evening overnight hours, we will see the rain from it. here is a closer look at the

weather pattern. see warm front down to the south. warmer temperatures south of that. that warm front is going to rise through the city, during the late evening overnight hours. increase chances for rain. we will warm up during the overnight hours and the cold front there l swing through during the they and knock temperatures down. temperatures will be back in to the 50s. we will top out the daytime high temperature, normally, 59. 58 for the daytime high. we will warm up during the overnight hours as the warm front lifts to the north and cold front comes through. don't get used to the warm overnight temperatures yet. future trends, see just about midnight is when we will see rain moving through the area, again, we will see some of that from the cell moving through the area, i would say in next hour or two. i looked up new data. we will see rain moving in here. at midnight, we will keep that chance of rain through saturday morning. the clouds hang with us through saturday even -- evening.

sunshine on sunday. another little chance of rain sunday night. here is overnight hours, we are dropping down to 47. warm front moves through. temperatures will rise overnight. showers overnight lasting until tomorrow morning, saturday, we won't clear out until the evening hours. 58 degrees early morning showers. it will be here or there saturday night. could see patchy frost out there. if you have the plants outside, bring them inside. we had to do this earlier this week. clearing, drying out. it is going to be chilly out there. we won't have to keep with that for long. 68 sundays. 67 monday. 70 tuesday. it's going to be warm and humid. we could see thunderstorms on tuesday night. wednesday, few clouds, we cool down on thursday and friday. we have plenty of sunshine to go around. >> everybody got spoiled a little bit. this is spring now. this is what we are supposed to get. >> little wet and mild. we will see what happens. very own christian shaffer

got a early start, he joined mayor stephanie rawlings blake at cecil elementary school. it was part of a reading program. they are working to work with the city to improve reading skills and get children excited about books. there are several things that you can do to stay on a healthy course of life. there is obviously to eat a healthy diet and exercise. >> reporter: eating right and keeping active can keep the body going, there are other tips you can do to stay healthierment at the top of the list is sleep. studies shown that sleepless nights can lead to depression. >> it's a chance for the body to rebuild and restores. it's a chance for metabolic processes to catch up. >> reporter: take care of your

teeth. plaque buildup and gum disease can lead to inflammation and lead to heart problems. as you age, bad dental health can lead to major problems. >> i see a lot of patients as they get older are needing teeth extractions, root canals, implants, bridges, you name it. >> reporter: get moving. this doesn't mean gym work, just move. movement can help with arthritis, back pain and circulation issues, as well as heart problems. >> improves bone strength, decreases the likelihood that someone will develop osteoporosis, improves ambulance, cognitive functions. >> reporter: watch your vitamin, according to nutritionists, no need to pop a lot of pills, a multivitamin daily. best to get the vitamins from the food you eat. >> for your health news, check out abc2news.com, look under the news tab and click on the

health link. a live view of the inner harbor tonight. a little bit of sun coming in there for to make for a nice sun down. we'll be right back.

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are suffering and adapting in the world of $4 a gallon gas. this is what happens when a school bus meets a tornado, the bus was loaded with students here. the bus driver saved their lives. those stories and more when abc2 news at 11:00 comes up. we got a little bit of rape out there. looks like that's going to move through. the storms are ripping by, about 50 miles to the east, we will see showers here in the next hour or so. maybe heavy downpours, through the rest of the seven-day forecasts not bad. a little bit of rain tomorrow. sticking with the clouds tings weekend is the only bad thing. monday and tuesday we clear out. slim chance, wednesday a few clouds, in the upper 60s, cooling down thursday and friday of next week. >> spring is back. >> here it is.

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