speed chase. and cases of the flu reaching epidemic sizes. what local hospitals are saying about the patients. first we are excited for the ravens to take the field on saturday. the team hasn't left for denver yet but jamie has left and now he is in enemy territory. he joins us tonight. do i see snow on the field behind you? >> reporter: that's not a prop. that's snow. there is more coming for saturday. it'll be about 18 degrees. right now it's 41 but they are lying, it's 21. we are live in mile high stadium. we landed here 90 minutes ago. where are the ravens fans? say hello to nikki, nikki runs

the baltimore ravens. >> in colorado. >> reporter: that is great. and -- you were raised in baltimore and you still have a home there. >> we do. we catch our home in federal hill to go back for most of the home game. >> >> reporter: where did you -- what brought you? >> grad school. >> reporter: you went to notre dame. >> yes i went to college notre dame. go gators. are and came out here for work. >> yes. from houston. >> reporter: very nice and you are still employed. >> yes. >> reporter: and smart because are you a ravens fan. >> of course. >> reporter: great. craig come out here. he is a brother of bart o'brien who runs eagles nest, the townsend country club and you are here for 13 years. >> right. . >> reporter: he has the shannon -- when he went the right way. what is it like before you met them? >> i used to find myself in

the local watering hole just in the corner in the smallest tv watching the ravens game if i could get it. >> reporter: look at you now. >> we have the best group around. >> reporter: where is -- sarah. come here. you have a dog named? >> sizzle. . >> reporter: you were going to name it ray. >> he is a sizzle. he can tennis ball so hard. >> reporter: where is the dog go? there hes. look at this. the doggy here. how you doing? this is great. you know we have something else right over here. wait until you see what's coming. these are all people from baltimore and belaire and look what's coming here. this car, this stand, is driven by demetri and he runs the food truck. >> we have only been on land for a couple hours but i brought a little bit of baltimore from capitol crab. look at this. some crab cakes. >> reporter: crab cakes in

denver. there you go. let's go. from denver we are live all week. come out and join us and we will see you tonight at 11 with more ravens fans. let's go. >> great job. if anybody can find the ravens fans we knew jamie could. the defense has the challenge of stopping one of the best quarterbacks in the league. peyton manning but the signal caller has high praise for the ravens. >> baltimore, they are -- they have great players and they have great coaches. it's the great combination. they can give you multiple looks and when you have just -- special players in the different spots, in the d line, ed reid, on the record saying he is the best safety i have played against. best safety of this decade in

my opinion. >> high praises for us. if you are playing in denver in january weather going to be a factor in the game but chilly temperatures actually may be advantage for the ravens. mike has been crunching the numbers all day long and has the game day forecast. >> the roads are favoring joe right now. last film manning played was 35 degrees on december 30th. that's nowhere where we will be with game time. expecting 20 degrees. this is about this arctic blast that's coming down out of the rockies. here will be the deal. very cold air. maybe a flurry or two. look at the temperatures, around tailgate 20 degrees, during the game, falling to around 15 and that will be brutal. the temperatures not take into account wind chill. is it the coldest game? no. these are historic postseason games, number five back in 2008 that was cold, four below zero

with a wind chill of negative 24, the coldest goes to the cowboys verses packers, that was the ice bowl, 16 below zero with a wind chill of 48 degrees below zero. ten career postseason games, joe is three for three with temperatures below 40 and he has had impressive games with temperatures sub32 degrees. they have won more times with 32 degrees or below in comparison to what we were dealing with peyton. 39 right now in denver. it'll be in to the 20s by the time with we hit game time. wyatt is there. he will tell us with the warm up. >> thank you. here at abc2 we are getting ready for the big game with a special on purple friday. join us tomorrow for destination denver. i will be live. jamie will be live throughout the flight with reports denver.

it starts here tomorrow night at seven. and you know when we aren't on the air you can find more coverage online. just go to the website. there you can see a photograph gallery from the 2012 season and you can send us your fan picks, e-mail pictures to wmar at pix.com and include ravens in the subject line. now to the other big story of the day. we are in the middle of one of the worst flu seasons in a decade and it's not showing signs of slowing up. roosevelt joins you now with a look at how some of the local hospitals are dealing this near epidemic. >> reporter: just about every area emergency room has had high numbers of people with flu and flu-like symptoms. people are sick. a lot of people are meeting lately in hospitals and emergency clinics.

a cold is a runny nose and pressure in the head and chest. the flu is like you were hit by a bus or two or maybe three. >> almost everybody will say i feel like i was hit by a truck. >> reporter: bus, truck, you know, you get the idea. you just feel bad. the flu is nothing to trifle with, it can kill you. certain groups of people are at risk along with people who may have compromised immune systems. >> very intense. if you feel that you should come in and be seen with in 28 hours, we can treat you and decrease the progression of the virus. if you come in a lot later some have felt like this and then they felt better and then got worse and then they got --

[inaudible]. >> reporter: the flu season has a strong grip on the nation. boston has declared a season emergency. medstar has been seeing huge numbers, patient was flu-like symptoms are averaging 50 a day at franklin square square, 30 to 35 at union memorial and 63a a day at good sam. even if you got a flu shot you can still get a strain of the flu because there are so many different strains out there. best advice, get treated go home. >> best order first of all is prevention. it's called the flu vaccine. if you didn't get that and start getting symptoms you need to come be seen. don't go to work or go to the place of employment and spread it. >> reporter: prevention just doesn't mean getting the flu shot. first and foremost you need to wash your hands, wash them constantly. you can pick up the flu virus yourself and spread the virus by just different little things that you touch.

also if you do get the flu, take time away from work. take the time, get out of the office because you will spread it to co workers and you could develop other complications that can slope if you don't take the time off to let this pass through your system. abc 2news. >> thank you. for complete flu resource guide log onto abc news.com/flu. you can find all the information that you fled to stay flu free and also get tips if you are sick you will find it all there on abc 2news.com/flu. >> all right. take a look. current conditions, just partly cloudy skies, clear for the most part earlier today. now clouding up. temperatures have been running generally in the low 50s today. we are now falling in to the upper 40s. one cold out lier up in york pa down to the freezing mark already. much colder up that way. for most of us this evening it's a slow fall through the

40s. eventually down in the mid-30s by daybreak tomorrow and just partly cloudy skies th overnight. we will talk about the chance for rain coming in by tomorrow evening. a big warm upcoming up. >> all right. thank you. now update on that lie speed chase that landed a pair of officers in the hospital and a belaire woman in jail. 25-year-old alicia hoffman faces a lot of charges, also two counts of second degree assault for allegedly running down the officers in the chase. police arrested the same woman on a marijuana charge the week before and some of her neighbors in belaire say they aren't surprised. >> neighborhood. >> i'm not surprised. you know it could be from ten years old up to 90. i'm not surprised in the sense of age groups getting caught up in drugs. >> reporter: hoffman was a passenger in a car driven by ashley alb era s in july of

2011 that crossed the center line and killed a woman in belaire. she moved in with her grandparents and it appears she was driving her grandparent's car yesterday. today at a high school they held a memorial for the ten students of the school that have died in the past 21 months. the latest young life taken to soon was a jv football player and rotc member struck by a car on his way to school in december. the school's principal said that this is a trying time. >> its been a rough couple of years for us. lot of loss, but we also wanted to reflect and remember but also celebrate the young lives that were cut short, their lives were cut way to short but they made a huge impact in the time they were here with us. >> just a week before ash died another student was laid to rest after being struck by a

car in annapolis. a howard county high school football player is making a difference on and off the field. we will introduce you to the our student athlete of the week.

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. it seems look we marv, l at what athletes do on the field but there are special athletes in our area that are making a difference off the wild and in the classroom. tonight we meat meet one of them, our student athlete of the week. >> reporter: in life we take our shots. >> we are flying basketball. >> sometimes we miss

terriblely. sometimes we fall short but when we make it there is nothing like net. >> reporter: always want to do better. >> reporter: meet brandon. he volunteers with the special olympics at howard county. he doesn't see special needs. he sees special people. >> it doesn't seem that way when we are playing sports. they are all trying to have one. >> reporter: he has it all figured out doesn't he? he carious a 3.7gpa and takes tough classes. >> i want to know more. >> reporter: he is the team captain of the jv football team. work hard, get better. >> respect me as a person. >> reporter: he has all the respect in the world from those in this gym. >> he has a passion,. >> reporter: some come in unable to play but you quickly see the magic. >> motivates me to do better knowing that it's harder for them to do what they want and they are still able to do it. makes me feel like i should be able to do what i want. >> the milestones you see with

our athletes, are actually big milestones. for many of them that's a giant step. >> reporter: in life the little steps lead to giant steps, when you look back you see just how far you have gone. >> i always want to get to the next level. be a better athlete. do everything better. >> reporter: you can't ask for a better young man n week's student athlete of the week. >> now if you know an outstanding student athlete like brandon we would like to hear about them. them >> and now maryland's most accurate forecast. >> another nice mild january day. no question about that. 44 degrees right now. we are above the normal high even now as we see temperatures

falling. 29 the dew point area dry. that was the story once again. we lot of the sun yesterday but of course we had it back on tuesday, we get it back on thursday, now clouding up. in annapolis sun plenty across the severn, beautiful shot, beautiful shot on the eastside from the campus of ccbc with the observatory. it was a clear day. things clouding up tonight. temperatures around 50. these will be a little cooler tomorrow with clouds and rain showers coming our way. they will warm up dramaticly both saturday and again on sunday. so get ready for that. 40s tonight. eventually down in the 30s by daybreak. few clouds filtering in out of the west. no precipitation, conditions are dry through out the midatlantic states for now. as we look further west there is a threat of precipitation. weak boundary pushing in. that will generate a few

showers for the evening tomorrow night. we clear out late tomorrow night. fog saturday morning. then clearing and much mildler temperatures arriving for not just the first half but the second half of the weekend. air is in the mid60's south and east of us, it won't make it in. we will have cool cloudy conditions with source, rain showers really cooled down the atmosphere. to the south and west. 70 toward jackson mississippi. that mildler air begins to make a push into baltimore and the east coast on saturday afternoon. in this air to the south which is close to 70, that moves in for sunday. so sunday looks really mild. right now though again quiet for another 12, maybe 20 hours, then by this time tomorrow afternoon and evening we will look for rain showers to come in with this system out of texas. making more of a track to the north but we will still catch the warm front ahead of this thing. that could generate showers and then the warm air behind that boundary into saturday and again it's going to hang out

and get warmer on sunday. just a quick check of colorado with the ravens, looks like partly cloudy tonight. cold air starting to build in and snow showers out in the mountains to the east of denver. you get the idea of what's setting up for saturday. mostly cloudy, dry tomorrow, 38 with late day showers and tomorrow night we will call it 40. fog developing, you will be out early saturday morning. watch out for that warming trend the next three days, then we start to cool it of monday, tuesday into wednesday. bring in the chance for rain with a couple of different waves coming through. monday into tuesday and on wednesday. so, weather goes downhill quickly after sunday but in the meantime enjoy a little -- what i'm calling a spring preview, a two day spring preview. >> in january. >> teaser. >> long as we can keep the trend going. >> it's a two day tease. >> all right. >> here is something i like to hear. if you don't like cooking here

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. before we go let's take a look at what we are working on for the news at 11. we will we view seven items that will cost you more in 2013, plus one much wanted item that's going down in price. and what would you do if you saw this on the road?

the driverless car prank and the funny reactions caught on camera. those and more when you come back at 11. i think that would freak me out. >> hollow man there. what's up for tonight? >> you know not bad. for january, cool, i would call this, not cold. temperatures down in the mid40s now. pasadena 45, belaire 42 and columbia 44. hour by hour here you go through the overnight. down to 30s. back in the mid40s tomorrow. a quick check of that extended forecast if you are a warm weather fan, we have plenty for you. >> chyllia where jamie is. >> yes. they are getting colder by the day right to kickoff. >> we will see you tonight at 11. thank you for joining us. have a great evening. >> see you tonight. let's play:

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