police. it's been a gorgeous day in the baltimore area. we're all holding out hope the weather will hold out. we have the running of the preakness stakes and wine in the woods. let's check in with meteorologist wyatt everhart. we've got it all, multiple things in maryland this weekend and it's looking good, real good weather wise the first half of the weekend. a few clouds blowing in, high thin included cover, no chance of those clouds producing rainfall, so that's great. temperatures hovering near 0. tomorrow we'll add another five degrees. so a warm preakness afternoon. the rest of the evening 70s with a few clouds. we'll talk about how things shape up and a look into sunday monday. >> the man with all the good news. 2011 was a record break year for maryland. the state hit a record for

boating accidents. don harrison was out on the water today to see what's being done to avoid a repeat in 2012. >> reporter: this why are's boat safety week will be more significant to the resources police than any before. maryland had a record number of both deaths last year, 24 directs in all, almost double the previous year. natural resources attributed that fact to good weather. >> last year our summer started, the beginning of may land didn't and until october. most of our weekends were dry and sunny and warm. with the increased amount of activities we saw encreamsed accidents and subsequently our fatalities within the up. >> reporter: being prepared and having all the safety equipment is the most important thing you can do before you go. he got a citation two days ago for not having a best on his kayak. he learned his lesson and now have one. >> you don't necessarily know

what other people are thinking or can see you, so it's always important, i guess, to have proper safety implements in place. >> it's everything. if you're in the safe out there then you can't possibly have fun. out here on the water it doesn't take long to learn that things can go bad first. it's better to be safe first and have fun after. >> reporter: bill had his life jackets on board. resources police like to see them on. >> we recommend wearing the life jack skeet because those couple minutes that it takes to find it, put it on, might be too late. >> reporter: boat safety week begins tomorrow but maryland's natural resources wants you to think of safety all year long. >> they will have more patrols this year. they will specifically look for

drugged or drunk boaters. traffic could get a bit hectic. in addition to the thousands who will show up for preakness, there are events that will cause backups. saturday the annual wine in the woods, so expect the delays on broken land park way and little patuxent parkway. it will affect traffic at sun teen yal park from 7 to 11:30. the neat mayor appears to be over for drivers in mississippi. police arrested the man responsible for two highway shootings in the last week. the arrest came down to good old fashioned police work. >> this is a glorious day. >> oar the arrest and add week of terror. this man james willie killed in

cold blood. left two innocent people to die. they arrested the long time criminal in connection with the rape of a woman. during the arrest they discovered 9-millimeter handgun. they compared ballistics compared to those at the scene have the highway murders. th two linked up. along interstate 55 today, you could hear the sigh of relief. the nightmare began on may 8th. a man was driving to peck up his grandson when bullets pierced the door of his car leaving the 74-year-old grandfather to die alone. >> it's hard to imagine. >> reporter: three days later, 50 miles away. lori ann carswell body was

discovered, murdered as she drove home from her job in a nor by casino. >> reporter: police say drugs and money drove him to kill. those two drivers may have simply been at the wrong place at the wrong time. christmas came early in one town. the kmart in virginia was closing down and the business man asked what would happen to all the items. they said it would go to kmart power buyers, so he became one. he had items that he donated back to his community. >> there won't be any needy people cold this winter, i don't think oar not only did painter donate the items, he rented a building to hold them. remember the holding chads during the 2000 presidential

elections? now a dead heat for a city council seat will be decided by the flip of the scoin because of the small population. it operates under state law instead of the city charter but threing the coin isn't as simple and easy as it seems. >> i'm trying to decide how you flip, who calls it to make sure everyone will be made happy. >> the city's thorn wrote up a three-page agreement detailing how the toss will go down. both men mr. pull a hat -- piece of paper out of a hat at the same time. firefighters in oregon climb on to a roof to put a fire out, and then the unthinkable. one of them falls through. what happened to that guy after the roof gave way. in north carolina a gator fights back when a by ole just tries to move him. how the man is doing after

wrestling that gator.

tense moments in portland, ore oamplet dozens of firefighters responded to this

fryer. the roof gives way and one of those firefighters falls right through. >> he was up there trying to she hot spots. there was a weak fall. he did fall three or four feet into the rafters. he crawled out. he's fine. lucky for him. well, that firefighter was fine. two others received treatments for burns and exhaustion. in missouri police are looking for the fugitive who led them on a chase. the suspect drove off the highway, ditched his car and was able to make a clean getaway. take a look at this incredible video from north carolina. this guy has no feemplet a biologist attempts to move this 10-foot long gatestor and it turns on him. this clamps done on his upper arm for a second and lets g the -- g -- go. the biologist was able to get away. this was the scene at the

diamond backs rockies game. a vacuum was used to suck up the beast. facebook went public. it amaced more than 900 million friends. why do we still love it. >> you can call the u.s. the no vacation nation.

before facebook there were other sites. so we look at why we love facebook even though we hate it. >> reporter: more than 900

million users $10.5 billion minutes of our lives. facebook grew and group and grew. >> when myspace took off, it was before most adults were acclimated to the web. >> reporter: serksd the guy in the hood -- second, the guy in the hoody said the goals of the man and the company are one. >> to him and a lot of the tech vision fair ris, to make -- visionaries to make a cool thing rather than a successful thing. >> reporter: some say the cool factor is fading with such a huge user base. >> the bottom line they're going

back and going back because that's where their friends are. >> reporter: there have been stumbles along the way such as the evolving privacy policy. and after a blockbuster ipo, the next millstone, 1 billion users. i'm karin caifa. twitter is looking on ways to guard your prief -- privacy. it prevents cookies from tracking your information. to opt in on twitter you have to select the do not track within fire tox. others like is a far rip and internet explorer have similar features.

all right. a nice looking friday evening. show the good folks at home that we're looking at basically a few high thin clouds. on the hole a bright sunny day. as we take a look at the overall temperature, 73 not bad. the humidity around 35%. get a little a larky going on. a nice looking day. how about easton. actually kent island near easton. bright blue skies early on. then we have high thin clouds. we'll see a similar looking sky tomorrow for the preakness. we're talking a bright sunny scenario and maybe a few fair weather clouds. temperatures mid-70s. 60s at the beach as well as out toward deep creek. there are still some spots to find cool weather. winds are light from the

northeast. the little one is bringing in drier and cooler air. look at the humidity numbers. that's dry and comfortable. humidity creeps up. we may see avid cloud cover but in particular by sunday as the clouds continue to roll in out of the south and east courtesy of our coastal suburbs -- disturbance. this thing is crawling. it will spin off the cape hatteras area. that's where we'll see more cloud cover spin into maryland by late tomorrow night into early sunday. maybe we'll get showers by sunday evening and the early part of next week. in the meantime high pressure in control keeps the rain chances down to zero. here's a look at the trend that disturbance not moving much. we're clear for our preakness saturday. however, as we go through the second half of the weekend, it

drifts further north and we get showers from south to north. coastal system, always have to keep an eye on it. probably this will stall out over us. so down here in the coastal carolinas that's probably us come monday into tuesday. overnight 50, mostly clear. we cool off. for your preakness saturday, 85 degrees. sun and clouds if you're a warrior dasher. we look for maybe mid-80s tomorrow. it's going to be a warm day. saturday night, 52, partly cloudy. a mild evening and the seven-day forecast showing basically more of the same. however a chance for a shower and monday and tuesday, we think that's when the disturbance will bring us rain showers. good looking day. it will be warm. >> today might have been a

better day but they'll get good weather for preek test. >> 80 and sunny. i'm sure there will be some kind of cold beverage. in the race for the white house both sides are out with new ads. both appear to be positive. tory dunnan joins us live from washington. take us through what you have tonight. >> reporter: at first glance it seems like a breath of fresh air but if you'll go in closer you'll realize it's not all positive. when it comes to campaign ads, at times it has gotten nasty between president obama and mitt romney. but today we have two brand-new ads that each campaign is dubbing positive. >> governor romney. >> reporter: romney's first general election ad runs through what he would do in office.

there's still a few digs at the president. >> president obama approves the keystone project. >> reporter: romney's ad hit the air wies in -- airwaves in four battle ground states. then there's the president's new ad entitled higher. it tries to use his own background as a reason to support white house initiatives on higher education. >> his life was transformed. >> reporter: it's a timely issue. congress is set to battled a scheduled hike in interest rates. >> higher education means more for the middle class, giving younger people a chance to compete look he did. >> reporter: if you watch them,

you'll realize there are many political undertones. newt gingrich endorsed mitt romney but tomorrow he will get another shot at it. >> reporter: tomorrow he hits the campaign trail. newt gingrich will be out and about for mitt romney. he will be at the georgia state gop convention where he is expected to speak and explain why le backed mitt romney. this could be good for mitt romney. remember, newt gingrich is from georgia and he had a lot of success there winning the state's primary. at this time it looks like they ended up being friends on the campaign trail. >> thanks for that report. we'll toss it over to cress -- christian schaefer. a firefighter faces the

toughest battle of his life. how you can help his family. those stories and more coming up. a preview on what's head at 6:30 with diane sawyer. coming up on world news, michael j. fox. wait until you hear the new mt. everest he just conquered. he's our person of the week.

although facebook's initial public got a lot of attention, the dow fell and the nasdaq fell

35 to close at 2779. the s&p 500 fell 10 points. we're the no vacation nation. workers all across the nation aren't using their vacation days. >> americans don't have as many vacation days as pel other countries. a lot don't take them anyway. 50% of workers didn't user that vacation days each year. americans get 15 days off but leave 11 on the table. some say they pass up rest and relaxation because they simply have too much work to do. then there's the cost. one fifth said they can't afford to travel and others are afraid to take team off in a shaky job market. the u.s. falls short. the uk mandates that employees get a minimum of 28 days a year

if they've been with the company for 10 years. france and greece mandate 28 days. this isn't sad news for pisness owners. company profits are at a 10-year high because employees spend so much time at work. looks like we're finally getting the hang of our payment due date for our credit cards. the number of delinquencies hit a six-year low. the bad news, the average balance is up 6% from the first quarter last year. comcast is getting rid of the cap for broad band customers and replacing it with a usage base system. it has been am place since 2008. come exaft said if started because a small number of the internet customers were abusing the privileges, mostly downloading hd movies. it's not all about the

horses this weekend. yesterday the crab derby, the proceeds of the turtle and a look at the updated forecast. there is a new paradigm in law enforcement. >> a wang after authorities bust up a large murder and drug conspiracy. abc2 is continuing the investigation in gas pumps. are you getting your money's worth and how to check the pumps near you. first, we're going to take a look autism baltimore. ships in the harbor. wyatt everhart joins us. everyone wants to know what pr