why you shouldn't run out and used first tax preparer you see waving a sign. >> it was cold a clear day. that's about to change. if you keep looking, don't blink. be prepared for a messy commute in the morning. let's check in with wyatt everhart. >> you see the number there is getting colder after a sunny bright day. take a look. you can see see a few clouds beginning to edge in. low 30s in annapolis. 32 in hoeffel ford. the numbers keep dropping as the front continues. things changing through your tuesday. yes, on the front edge of this, especially areas west of the immediate baltimore area in our state we could see an icy mix developing toward early tomorrow morning. to the west -- we're talking about a rainy day, a mild day.

wait until you see how cold this gets. we have all kinds of changes. >> listen, you need us. head to abc2news.com/download. check out our mobile weather apps. you can take it with you on the go and get the latest updates on school closings. now to the breaking news we told you about at 5:00. a former johns hopkins gynecologist may have secretly videotaped patients during exams. dr. nikita levy was found dead in his home. they said all of the patients may not have been victims. some patients have been contacted by investigators. evidence from his home could lead to other suspects or victims. johns hopkins is setting up a tipline tomorrow or wednesday for potential victims.

a woman walking her dog in pasadena on sunday got a whole lot more than she bargained for. >> an apparent grenade turned an otherwise wise quiet neighborhood into something different. >> reporter: the unsuspects neighbor walking her dog on 12th and pasadena way have discovered the cola can or the caution sign but she couldn't miss what looked like a real grenade. >> my son had walked up there. the company -- cops told him he couldn't go up there. >> reporter: the anne arundel county fire chief said they weren't taking chances. >> this would be devastating to someone in the area or the individuals close to the device. we treat a device as if it's live. until it's rendered safe and put

in an area that cannot affect anyone we treat it as a live grenade. >> that means bringing in a bomb squad. >> they have the robot checking for the grenade. >> the experts ended up doing what they do best. they blew it up. while no one knew if it was real it made for an interesting afternoon hoot road was blocked off at our driveway. we found out there was a hand grenade that was found. >> wow. anne arundel county fire officials said it's not uncommon for people to report finding grenades in vacant or abandoned homes but they rarely turn up on the side of the road. city police are trying to find the man who forced his way into a north baltimore apartment this weekend. this happened in the gated

community near loyola university. a woman was going into an apartment when a man carrying a gun came up behind her and demanded money. the suspect forced his way into her home where he took her purse and fled. at this point they have not release pad description of the -- released a description of the suspect. we're working on what happened when a baltimore police trainee was shot in the head. the new director, major joseph smith, will be introduced during a news conference. we just got off the phone with shock trauma. they say the victim is now in serious condition tonight. now the very latest details on the deadly stabbing of a student at the university of maryland eastern shore. detectives offered a $2,000 reward to identify those responsible for the death of edmond st. clair.

the 22-year-old died saturday after he was stabbed by a group of students. police believe this followed an ongoing dispute. st. clair was a junior biology manager. the latest on a four-alarm fire in pennsylvania. the body of a woman and a girl were found. two others insides house, a man and a 13-year-old boy escaped. three firefighters were hurt. one was treated for second-degree burns. that firefighter is listed in critical condition. still no worth on what caused the fire in lancaster, pennsylvania. our abc2 news investigators are working to warn you of some of the tax scams. tax season is prime-time for scams, especially because of the amount of personal information you have to put up. the bbb said your best bet is going with an established preparer who has been in the same location for some period of time.

they should have an irs pin number. by law they should be registered in maryland. if not, that's a red flag. >> reporter: being registered at least is the first step, i believe, toward legitimacy because you're making yourself known and going on record as a tax preparer. >> you should also find out who should physically do your taxes. sometimes it gets handed off to a secondary person who doesn't have the right qualification. remember, whoever does your paperwork, you're on president hook if there's fraud or a mistake. >> you're feeling more pain at the gas pump. gas price spiked 12 cents in the past week. a gallon is $3.67. it rose 42 cents in the past month. the cause is rising price of oil. seeing the price jump so high in january when demand is relatively low sun usual. traditionally they rise in late

march through early may. if that happens this year that could send the national average to over $4 a gallon. we're working with you. just head to abc2news.com/traffic and click on the gas prices tab. to get the cheapest gas, in whitemarsh it's at costco. you need a membership. >> burger king's fast food's twitter account was hacked leading people to believe that mcdonald's bought it. the headline was we got sold to mcdonald's. burger king's twitter profile was changed to a mcdonald's logo. oh man. the hacker appears to be a fan of the group' nonmust -- group anonymous. the neighborhood association's mayor broke ground on a brand-new tree planting

project. plant replacement trees and do regular maintain nafnlts they're hoping to spruce have you federal hill. since the baltimore ravens are the word champions, san francisco has to pay up on their bet. so the ripley's believe it or not museum had to ante up. >> san francisco promised to foot the bill for casey cares foundation to benefit the museum if the ravens won. guess where they are today. casey cares -- a mom said it's part of her family. >> they're not just an organization. they become a part of our family. they're always excited to see us and everybody knew ryan. that makes it special. >> they provide programs for

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all right. our health alert begins with the flu outbreak. the worst of the flu season maybe over. reports dropped for the third straight week, this according to the centers of disease control and prevention. at last count 31 states reported flu-like symptoms. flu deaths continue to go up. 64 children have died from the flu this season. want to change your child's behavior? being selective of what they watch on tv is a way to start. the study shows when preschoolers watched shows that stressed compassion and cooperation, they tended to act that way themselves. when they saw shows with violence they become more violent. parents replaced violent shows

with educational programming and the second one did not change their viewing habits. after a year those who watched more kid friendly programs were less aggressive. >> all right. we're back to our house call segment with dr. jeffrey rosenthal from the university of med maryland medical center. we've been talking about congenital heart disease. tell me what the university is doing partnering with research. >> we have two ongoing research projects trying to help children with obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors -- high blood pressure, lipid abnormalities, and trying to help them develop life-style choices and care plans that will help make them healthier as adults so they can avoid some of the adult forms of

cardiovascular disease like atherosclerosis. >> if you're parent sitting at home, what advice would you have? >> the most important thing is parents feel comfortable talking with the doctors that are caring for their children and with the team they're working with. we at the university of maryland children's hospital are always available to discuss health issues related to kids and we can be reached at 480-328-4 fit. >> are these conditions people can live with. we're talking about diseases people can live with. >> yes. in fact, that's the good news. if people take care of the cardiovascular issues that they are a born with, quite often they can lead healthy lives into

adult hood. that's the good news. there's been wonderful progress. many heart defects were lethal when i was training. now just 15 or so years later most kids who have these abnormalities are able to live and be happy members of their families. >> all right, dr. rosenthal, thank you very much. send it over to jamie costello. >> if you live on 29th and barkley, you grew up at the barkley rec center and were crushed when you heard it was closing. but barkley may be coming back to life. >> reporter: about a dozen people spent their day scrubbing and sanding. about six months ago the recreation center shut down due to budget cuts. they took the lead role in

reviving this center. >> it's a lot of work. it's a lot of effort and there's a lot of things we're still figuring out but the reason we took it on is, one, we didn't want to see the building just close indefinitely. we didn't really know what the future was with regards to rec and parkses running it. it's an important thing to have in the community. >> it's a win-win for the volunteers. they get to use the recreation center for meetings and it will be a safe place for kids. >> i bought a home here a year and a half ago. i learned about rec centers trying to get this up and running for schools. and, you know, they were playing outside on the street. it would be a lot better if they were here. >> we moved to baltimore four years ago and came because we had a sense this would be a great community. i want to make sure that we keep

on keeping that spirit alive. by our doing it, it's going to give kids in the neighborhood and all their families an opportunity to have a place to go. >> reporter: this 14-year-old and his teammate play for barkley's basketball team. >> so we can be here. >> reporter: they hope to have a reopening ceremony this man. in northeast baltimore, i'm manny locke. all right. we'll start off with a look at some of the gorgeous weather across maryland. man, it was looking good throughout our president's day, beautiful blue skies. days getting nice and late here has we move into bel air. you see a sapphire sky, a few from charm city run and at the

u.s. naval academy, not a bad day at all as we observe washington's birthday. take a look at some of the current conditions right now. basically we'll skip past that. right hard 40 degrees. take a look at some of the conditions neighborhood by neighborhood. i'm skipping head. let me see if i can back up and show you what we'll be looking for tomorrow has we kick off the day. looks like eventually in the upper 40s a potential icy mix from glen el west seeing a little bit of a wintry mix. same deal as we take you into carroll county tomorrow, maybe a brief icy mix going over to rain quickly early in the morning right around the westminster zone going west. for much of the state, much of the hear conditions will be in the form of rain tomorrow. so take a look at the setup. clear across the region. a few clouds beginning to edge.

the trend showing increasing clouds overnight. as we bring this in, again, starting off at 9:00 in the morning starting to edge its way in through hagerstown and sleet and changing rapidly over to rain as we push toward noon and rain through the baltimore or d.c. hear toward midday. then we clear out quickly tomorrow evening. in the wake of that system not a lot, just partly cloudy conditions, colder and windier weather. we'll briefly get into milder air as that surges in. then the cold air begins to make its push toward the middle part of the week. it will be windy and cold. that front continuing to march in, gist very -- just very briefly and the cold blast will make its presence felt. tonight down to 28, cold and breezy. tomorrow we're talking temperatures only in the upper 40s, a possible a.m. previous wintry mix west. we're talking the western

counties, carroll county, south, howard and frepg. the next few days conditions will be cold and kind of windy here. we're talking wind wednesday and thursday into the latter part of the week. we bring in more rain chances but primarily rain toward the weekend. a little colder than average. so there you go. >> no complaints. it's february. >> i like your ravens purple. keep it going. >> thanks a lot. >> world champions by the way. >> you know we've heard the nominees for the typical oscar movies but what film would win the all time award for the best food scene? foodies chose a few films including good fellows, the scene where pauly slices a garlic with a razor. the other nominations, check this out in our oscars guide.

go to abc2news.com/oscarses. we have everything you need to know. we'll be right back.

it's very common and there are many families that support each other. >> take a lot of calls today? >> we have. we're happy fort opportunity to speak with the community anden gage. >> thank you. iewfd of -- university of maryland medical center. now we'll send it back to your

program. they'll be here taking your calls for a couple more minutes. 410-481-2222.

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gesture but your facebook likes could come back to haunt you. those stories and more. join us tonight at 11. you have to pay attention to the weather, too. >> like us on facebook. yeah. clear cool night. temperatures down into the mid-30s, a nice finish to our holiday. we'll see changes tomorrow morning and an icy mix, we're talking westminster, glen el, frederick and hagerstown. the temperatures will be mild then they're killed and blustery wednesday and thursday. >> the possibility of delays, keep it here. >> especially in the western most area. >> okay. >> let's go to world news. >> we'll see you back here at 11:00. have a great night. my bad.

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