but baltimore is looming. three of these independent regional railway lines converge in baltimore and it creates a choke point for all passenger and freight traffic moving from north to south, you can't get to washington without passing through baltimore and because the line doesn't go straight through, lincoln will have to get out of the train and wade through a have the crowd just as he has done at every other transfer point only this time it is in a slave holding state and there are people in the crowd who have threatened to kill him. here is how allan pinkerton believed it would play out when lincoln arrived at baltimore's calvert street train station and this is complete, was a plot, diversion to draw any police escort away from lincoln's side and the critical moment. pinkerton wrote it had been fully determined that the assassination should take place at calvert st.. when the train entered the depot and mr. lincoln attempted to pass through the narrow passage leading to the street, a party already delega

baltimore police can do only so much.usually don't chase the bikers for fear of accidents. >> you don't want to risk the lives of innocent people by chasing them unless they committed a violent act. but at the same time, the act of them riding around doing wheelies at high speed is a violent act in itself. >> reporter: when the violence on the streets of baltimore can take your life at any minute, by comparison, riding a bike doesn't seem so dangerous. >> you've got your whole life to see the bikes. >> no. >> why not? >> tomorrow is a day not promised. could die any minute. >> as an old guy, i think sometimes children shouldn't think that way. shouldn't have those concerns. >> i used to think nobody can never die, as i was growing up. i see people getting shot, murdered, stabbed. you never know when your time is up. >> reporter: for pug and children like him, the road out of baltimore is lined with more obstacles than even the most skilled 12 o'clock boy could ever maneuver easily. for "nightline," i'm byron pitts in balt

but baltimore is living. three of these independent railway lines converged in baltimore which is a choke point for all passenger and freight traffic moving north to south. you cannot get to washington without passing through baltimore. because the line does not go straight through, lincoln has to get out of the trade to go through the heavy crowd just as he has done that every other transfer point only this time it is of a slave holdings stadium there are people in the crowd who have threatened to kill him. here is how teeeighteen believed it would play out led lincoln would arrive at the train station. this is complete with a plot to version to draw any police escort away from his side at the moment. he wrote it was determined the assassination should take place when the trade interests a depot and lincoln would enter through the narrow passage leading to the street, a party already delegated work to engage in a conflict on the outside then the policeman were to rush away to quell the disturbance. at this m

and you know, the only factory in my city, in west baltimore or in east baltimore that was working, that was viable was the drug corner. and that worked like a charm. and ultimately, what i look at is the hyperbole by which we say we're including everybody while we're tossing people out of the boat left and right. we've changed and we've become contemptuous of the idea that we are all in this together. this is about sharing and about -- you know, when you say sharing there's a percentage of the population, and it's the moneyed percent of our population, that hears socialism or communism or any of the other isms they want to put on it. but ultimately we are all part of the same society. and it's either going to be a mediocre society that, you know, abuses people or it's not. >> in your speech you said that knowing that they're worthless, these people, worthless, valueless because they have no economic means of support and nothing economically -- >> they're not relevant. >> they're not relevant. but they have to endure, as you said. and is that the horror show, the fact that they know they

philadelphia into baltimore. better chance of staying all snow as we go throughout the peak of the morning commute. new york city the snow is beginning 29 degrees. we are raining on the jersey shore so a fine line between where we are going to get the very heavy snow and rain. the snow totals down in areas of virginia here, especially towards the lynchburg and roanoke areas upwards of 12 inches. it's a quick hit and pile up. that is what is going to be over the top of areas like new york city as we go through the morning commute. i'm thinking right now, d.c. 4 to 5 inches on the ground and you'll end up with 8 to 12 and same story baltimore. philly to new york city 8 to 12 inches but a chance it could get higher. if the band sets up on the back side of the storm over the top of "the new york times" we could see 10 to 16. it's a two-part storm for a lot of people. we have this morning, then a break. this afternoon warmer and roads okay but tonight, another batch of snow coming through. >> a double whammy. >> if yo

abc news, baltimore. >> all right. speaking of downtown baltimore and maryland, the snow is sticking around this morning and making it especially tricky in one montgomery county neighborhood. >> john gonzales is live in north potomac where you are taking a live look now. some neighbors say they have not seen a single snowplow yet. johnny g is on the case. >> this morning most of the main roads are fine, but it is really the skedry and neighborhood roads that could give you trouble. we have everything you need to know before you go this morning. good morning, washington. >> most school systems are closed in our area today. you can see those scrolling at the top and bottom of your screen. agencies are running on a two-hour delay today with the option of unscheduled leave. >> you really can't get out of your neighborhood. it is fine once you get on the major arteries. jacqui has more on where we might expect more. maybe a warmup. >> we have a lot going on in the next several days. it was comic alwatching neighbors trying

one of the toughest things right now, and i still live in the baltimore/d.c. area. of all the players on the baltimore ravens and redskins, ray rice would be the last one that they would have any inkling anything like that would happen. he has been absolutely stall atalwart in the communication. obviously, seeing the footage, this is very serious in both the league, and the baltimore ravens will take it as such. >> brian, we're only see a piece of this. because according to police at the casino they were both involved in the altercation. and we're just seeing the end of it. that is when she is unconscious and he is dragging her out of the elevator. but we don't know what happened prior to that. we don't know if it was her fault, he said, she said. now they're saying that they're not going to let this play out in the media but how do you not let it play out in the media when you have footage surface like this? >> yeah, unfortunately they don't have a say in it because it will play out the way it is playing out. from what i understand, it was 3:30 in the morning, alco

finish they march to baltimore. two-pronged attack on baltimore. ross with 4500 men by land, the road to baltimore, admirals coburn and cock rain are going to sail the or armada and hit them from the water. inner harbor, everyone? fort mchenry? stop at the cheesecake factory, visit the science museum, which i love there. anyway, here they come. two-pronged attackment well, there's no way we can withstand this attack, and james madison picks a politician to be in charge of the defense of baltimore who basically tells the citizens when you run away, do it orderly so we don't kill anyone. there's two crusty revolutionary war vets who basically pull an alexander haig. they step up and say i'm in charge now, and they organize baltimore's defense thes. they order everyone to put out every lantern in the city so at night the british can't target the city. they order bucket brigades to put out fires, they hang lanterns behind the city so the british overshoo. they round up every boat, and they sink them at the entrance to the harbor. the british can't sail

changing the names of most things in this book on a call themselves the baltimore com. they were part of this. and so they crash into this very they said we are liberating this newspaper in the name of the people. and it's like, okay, you understand what you are liberating is consistent of about $10,000 in debt. and the rent is about three months overdue. there are a couple of old typewriters and they basically were not taking aspirin answer. a consciousness-raising session and we got screamed at. >> some of the more courageous individuals, the more courageous hippies had actually yelled back and they had converted my grandpa. >> she became a baltimore -- balti-cong? >> yes. in the way we got them to leave, we didn't get them to leave. we are yelling and screaming at them with the whole communist anarchist thing. crush the state, kill the pigs, one of them was our photographer in any way it was right in the middle of that. and it was in a section of baltimore that were three or four blocks away from johns hopkins and there were these kids in the neighborhood that would

when you walk the streets of baltimore and you're in character, how does it feel?rious and wonderful i think about what he saw. >> bartender and owner say they see evidence of ghosts all the time. >> i'm have to come back more often. >> of course you must end your visit here. it's edgar allan poe's grave. take a look. you wouldn't have been the first. >> there you have it. just ahead in the newsroom, new federal rights and protections that will affect same-sex marriage in every state. a big impact or more confusion? we'll have details coming up. wow, this hotel is amazing. oh no. who are you? who are you? wrong answer. wait, daddy, this is blair, he booked this room with priceline express deals and saved a ton. yeah, i didn't have to bid i got everything i wanted. oh good i always do. oh good he seemed nice. express deals. priceline savings without the bidding. edgar allen poe edgar alan poe edgar allan poe edgar allan poe

they leave washington and they marched to baltimore. a two-pronged attack on baltimore. the road to baltimore admirals coburn and and are going to sail the armada and hit them from behind. stop at the cheesecake factory when they are there and visit the science they see him. so here they come. there's no way we can withstand this attack. james madison picks the wrong guy and picks a politician who basically tells the citizens when you run away do it orderly. there are two crusty revolutionary war vets who basically step up and say i'm in charge now. and they organize baltimore's defenses. the order everyone to put out every lantern in the city so at night the british can't target the city. they put out fires and hang lanterns behind the city entries to the british overshoot. they round up every vote and they sink them at the entrance of the harbor. the british can't sail in. now they have to drop anchor and shoot from afar. after that they gather 3000 volunteers. there's no way they could withstand 4500 regulars on the rocks of the crusty revolutionary the man who said f

. >> i'm scott broom in baltimore where today maryland prison officials revealed one way they aim to reduce the number of cell phones smuggled into prison. the phones have been used by gangs to do everything from ordering hits on witnesses to running drug con spurs on the -- conspiracies on the inside and out. today governor governor o'malley visited the baltimore city detention center where there's been a leadership overhaul in the latest scandal. the latest reform unveiled today an electronic system that intercepts cell phone signals and renders the phones useless for anything other than a 911 call. >> our actions to make sure detainees don't have access to cell phones is one aspect of what we are doing to make our facilities more secure. >> reporter: in baltimore, scott broom, wusa9. >>> and former d.c. council member michael brown facing new allegations of campaign finance violations and a longer prison term. brown pleaded guilty last june to accepting tens of thousands of dollars from undercover fbi agents who are opposing his businessmen from maryland. today federal prosecutors

baltimore was a jewish enclave. almost nobody celebrated christmas at elementary school, and when i was older i thought, "that was unusual, no one celebrated christmas", so, yes. >> you - now you are an atheist. the jewish upbringing is a cultural identity not a spiritual connection. >> many jews - you don't have to believe in god to be a jew, you are, whether you choose to be or not. i went to a hebrew school, all the way up to the 10th or 11 theed grade. >> did you do the bar mitzvah and the whole think. >> i had the bar mitzvah, and felt - i found that i didn't believe in god. >> then stories on evangelical christians, when i get along with them, as often as i do, don't you think there was a reason that you were drawn to do the story while we are meeting each other, and they'll try to sell me on believing in god again. >> your parents, they wanted you to be a doctor. at what point did they say, "okay, he's doing well, we can . >> i was in my late 30s, before my parents stopped saying, "you should think about medi

in baltimore scott broom, wusa9. >> the cell phone intercept system costs about $5.5 million. the o'malley administration is asking the legislature for an additional 4 million to hire more correctional officers. >>> president obama went to michigan state university today to sign a sweeping almost trillion dollar federal farm bill into law, but what do you get for your basic trillion bucks these days? danielle nottingham spoke with a dairy and grain farmer in frederick county, maryland. >> reporter: chuck frye milks 200 cowells a day at his maryland -- cows a day at his maryland farm. it's been in the family for generations. how much milk do they produce? >> this size averaging about 85 pounds. >> reporter: after years of congressional gridlock over the farm bill, president obama signed it into law in michigan friday. the bill cuts $800 million a year from the food stamp program and replaces billions in direct payments to farmers with expanded access to insurance in case of disaster. >> i'm really proud that they finally got the farm bill passed and i think it will benefit us.

as "the baltimore sun" noted, whiting turner contracting company built the new university of baltimore school of law last year, the joseph myerhall symphony hacialg the national aquarium and m & t bank stadium. the firm's clients included the cleveland clinic, target, and unilateral i level. if you seek his monument, look around you. for whiting turner, willard with the hen-mayor william donald schaefer to help transform baltimore by building the aquarium and national place. these statistics enlist a test to willard's incredible skills as an engineer and businessmanment but they don't begin to capture the magnitude of his accomplishments, his charitable contributions and generous spirit. willard and his beloved wife lillian have been lifelong supporters of johns hopkins university. he helped to reestablish the university's stand-alone engineering school in 1979 and secured the school-naming gift from the state of hit mentor g.w.c. whiting. other activities include funding the willard and lillian hackerman chair, construction of the hackerman patient and family pavilion and the hackerma

lawrence jones is expected to be transported back from baltimore. once he's back in montgomery county, he's accused of sexually abusing 14 children including raping a girl in middle school. yesterday the former teacher at new hampshire estates elementary school e pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in a baltimore court. >>> students and staff at fairfax public schools are wearing black today to mourn the loss of two langley high school students. two 17-year-olds were found dead. police don't suspect foul play and don't believe the deaths are connected. >>> team 4 is tracking another chance of winter weather. taking a look outside, we have the sun out there right now. but this view will look a lot different just as we head into the weekend. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein joins us with this forecast for midday. >> it was very cold this morning. we were near 20 degrees in the upper teens. as we look at temperatures, we're well above freezing in washington. it's already in the upper 30s. prince georges, generally in the mid- to upp

a lot of road closures in the baltimore area.nd this is what you're up against even when your street's been plowed. we can kind of switch over maybe to our camera now, our photo jou journalist has that camera capability up now. even when your street has been plowed and dealing with the slush, you have berms forming from the plowing. these residents are digging out from these berms. very heavy slushy snow, below me here sometimes with a sheet of is underneath it. we came across two overturned tractor-trailer trucks south of here in maryland earlier today. fortunately the drivers of both those trucks were not hurt seriously. one didn't suffer any injuries, one suffered minor injuries to his hands. he had to be pulled out by his rescue crews. those were dramatic scenes right outside d.c. on the 495 beltway area. also earlier today in virginia we were roving around all these areas. south of d.c. on the i-95 corridor we came across a stranded motorist. he had done a 180 off the road. edwin martinez in a small honda sedan. we were able

there you go, baltimore. seeing some snow now. seeing the rain come up into new york, but later on today, later on tonight, this cold air that's here will cut that off, change it back over to sleet and eventually over to snow. boston, you stay rain all night long, washing away some of that muck that you have on the road right now. there has been plenty for boston. back out here to the west, this is where the heavy snow is going to be tonight. the catskills, on up to quebec, ontario, nova scotia and the winter of 2014 doesn't stop. >> we have seen so much and heard so much over the last two days about this, chad. i did hear a word i had never heard before. that word, thunder sleet out of the mouth of wolf blitzer. when he said it it sounded very very menacing. what is thunder sleet? >> it is thunder and sleet happening at the same time. it happened at the university of richmond and southeast virginia today. sleet was coming down so hard that it actually -- think about this. you're wearing just leather shoes. you rub your feet on th

baltimore seeing the snow, d.c. seeing it finally end. back up here to new york city, here's the rain and heavier rain you saw earlier. and here's boston now, finally getting out of the way of the precip you saw all day long. here's the new model and here's where the heaviest snow will be. here's the thruway. that would be lake placid. ironically, john, 34 years ago today the winter olympics began in lake placid. tonight they get eight inches of new snow. wouldn't sochi like some of that snow? >> i remember it well, thank you very much, chad myers. you're talking about snow shields and thunder sleet. it sounds like some kind of norris battle with thor. but there's snow in 49 of 50 states right now? >> i have to be careful of what i say, because the only state that doesn't have snow is florida. i don't want to jinx florida at this point in time. but every other state, from oregon to washington obviously higher elevations, california, nevada, all the way into the higher elevations in montana. big snows there coming down in the past couple o

and in baltimore twenty seven correction officers and a maryland jail were indicted last november for helping the black guerilla family prison gang manage a profitable drug operation while incarcerated in the city's jail most of the corrections are murder bombshell accusations about criminal activity inside the baltimore city detention center most of the corrections officers who assisted the gang members and keeping their operations going were behind bars for women who smuggle drugs cellphones and other contraband into the jail via their hair and body parts additionally four of these women became impregnated by the gang leader divide white one of the correction officers even got his name tattooed on her wrist the union representative for the correctional officers is calling for tighter background checks. but for now those guards could be finding a more permanent position at the jail house. and the top off our list of recent corruptors as my new when of santa ana california the emigration official was bribed with cash two hundred egg rolls and a sausage and exchange for granting either

the new baltimore twenty seven correction officers and a maryland dal were indicted last november for helping with the lack of the left and leave prison gang at me and across the whole drug operation that while incarcerated in the city's jail. most of the attraction of the murderer bombshell accusations about criminal activity is that the baltimore city detention center. most of the corrections officers to assist in the gang members in keeping their operations going. why behind bars before when he was smuggled drugs cell phones and other contraband into the doubt by their hair and body parts additionally four of the women became impregnated by a brigade leader did not know why it's one of the corrections officers they even got his name attached you on her breast. union representative for the correctional officers is calling for tighter background checks. but for now and those guards can be finding more permanent position at the jailhouse. in the top off our list of the reason corrupt arrogant and i knew you when the santa ana california the immigration official with the bride. the cat

[laughter] >> your experience as a writer and editor of a sort of underground newspaper in baltimore was very of its time. can you talk about that? >> this is when i sort of started to get over the hippie thing. i was in graduate school in baltimore, and i got started to write for a little underground newspaper and has probably quite a few of you will remember them. it was illegal. we based our whole idea on combat, on the french resistance we were doing is illegal things. so any way we were writing and turning on this newspaper theoretically. i can't remember if it was when we ran out of marijuana or whether it was when we got a bunch. this is when things were starting to get violent but also when the bombings began and kids blew themselves up. we had this kid show up wanting us to hide him not from the police come he got totally freaked out by how violent they had become. that was an eyeopener and it turns out that we had all along and undercover cop working as our photographer. the police department had put them there and he decided that he liked us. [laughter] i don't think he wa

corruption and baltimore prisons you know all the you know because prisons are all full of criminals i don't want to shock anybody about that either and all the terrible things go on there so to put somebody for twenty years in prison i think that's just the outrageous sentence but the us of course of the prison capital of the world it's the gulag capital of the world we have far more people in prison per capita than any other country in the world and the sentences are getting longer and longer because there's a prison industrial complex of corporatists businesses and connection with government they're all making a lot of dough putting people in cages it's a terrible thing and that's what we ought to be concerned about and if we concerned about government corruption we have to reduce the size of government you can actually change the zebra stripes you just can make the zebra smaller that's what we have to concentrate on right in the prison issue as a whole another issue that we don't have time to get to today but how do we get corruption out of politics you mentioned lemonade governm

. >>> baltimore ravens ray rice and his fiancee both arrested after an alleged physical altercation with one another. rice and his fiancee jenae palmer were both charged with simple assault at an atlantic city casino. a police report says they struck each other with their hands. they were released on personal cognizance with a court summons. >>> extremely cold weather and recent storms in our area are wreaking havoc on the streets. road crews across d.c., maryland and virginia have been busy repairing a slew of potholes like these on river road. the district's potholepalooza is set to begin this month. that's when ddot will have extra crews on the road. ddot says it's lled over 5,700 potholes, 2,500 of those just this month. >>> tomorrow is presidents day which means all government offices, schools, banks and financial markets are closed. if you're off, you'll want to know the forecast and you might like what first alert meteorologist erica grow has to say tonight. >> we'll start off dry and it looks like we'll keep any precipitation out of the forecast until after sunset on presidents d

but still central virginia on up to baltimore, d.c., still in it for now. this is where the heaviest snow will be. across parts of the green and white mountains, even into about central maine. that's where the heaviest snow is going to be. i don't believe we'll see maybe more than 2 to 4 inches in all the big cities, the big snow is at least 100 miles to the north of new york city and all the i-95 corridor. it is all up here heading to quebec and ontario as well. >> don't go too far. i want to talk to brian todd. he and his crew have been driving there some of the worst conditions. where are you now and what are you seeing? >> wolf, we're just north of washington, d.c., south of baltimore. we just came upon an accident. i'll get out of the vehicle and see if this woman can talk with us. she's talking to emergency responders right now. we have dash cam i'm talking to right now, coming out of the vehicle. this is the woman's car over here, picking it up with our photo journalist on his camera, going down here. this woman is paula. she just spun out. her car w

baltimore got 15-inches of snow overnight. the baltimore international airport brought out plows. a winter storm warning is in effect until tomorrow morning. >>> president obama is scheduled to address our state's water shortage to a visit to fresno tomorrow. senators feinstein and brooks will be accompanying president obama. >>> and state senator yi filed papers, termed out of office this year, served in the assembly and state senate since 2002 e representing parts of san francisco and san mateo counties. one of his key issues is expanding access to the ballot box. >>> a family dog was shot in the eye with a pellet gun. this happened nine days ago. sid is a black lab. the vet was shocked to find a pellet in his eye. >> who could have done this. who would shoot a pet? their eye? >> sid is on steroids and appears to be doing much better. police would like to talk with anyone who knows who shot the dog. >>> low income families in san francisco may be eligible for bicycles. a board of supervisors okayed a plan to distribute bikes that have never been identified by owners. the city wo

. >> just after midnight one christmas eve, motorists along route 83 near baltimore reported a brush fire just off the southbound lane. a volunteer firefighter was first on the scene. >> climbed down the embankment which was a steep embankment and walked his way toward the fire. when he got there at first he thought it was a mannequin. but as he got closer, he realized it was a human being. >> after the fire was extinction wished, the victim was unable to be identified other than to say he was a black male. >> there was no wallet, there was nothing on his person to immediately identify who this body was. >> the scent of accelerant was unmistakable. >> we had found a can that was severely burned next to the body that we believe was used to include an accelerant to help aid the fire. around the body, further up the hill, we found a lighter that appeared to have been freshly dropped at the scene. >> underneath the body was a partially melted sheet of plastic tarp. >> it was a two person job. that one person carrying a dead human body down that embankment over a guardrail in the distance

the baltimore ravens are saying very little about the arrest of star running back ray rice.ice in atlantic city, new jersey, arrested rice and his fiancee over the weekend. they say the couple argued at a casino, and the argument turned physical. both are charged with assault. the ravens say they are aware of the situation and have spoken to rice, but that's about it. rice's attorney says that this whole thing is a misunderstanding. >>> the lawsuit claiming a culpeper county deputy was fired for reporting another deputy's assault of an inmate is over. a judge dismissed the $300,000 lawsuit matthew manuel filed in october. he was one of five deputies fired three years ago following allegations that former deputy alma brown slapped a restrained female inmate after the inmate repeatedly spit on the officers. brown was convicted of assault. manuel and other deputy were rehired in 2012. >>> virginia governor bob mcdonnell says he'll work with the house and senate to pass a budget. he says he can find some common ground with both chambers' budget proposals. he also criticized the

secondly looking to get our student out to law offices, baltimore, maryland and the entire region, thosehips and and we place our students in all kind of legal settings. >> so walter, there are a number of schools innovating, changing business models is this the way forward? >> it could be one of the problems they face is when they are innovative they don't get good results of applicants or firms hiring. determineses how popular they will be as a law school. you can site chapter and verse, good schools have experimented with a school more oriented with experience, they rant getting better applicants or law firms to interview. and they go back to doing it the old way. now, there are lots of things that we can do to encourage innovation, one is to blow up a creaccreditation. the curb rules force their hand. and force them in to the old mode. you have to have expensive library, clinical study, whether your students want it or not. >> they see the legal word as i word in the last century and that's fundamentally changing, we should not be thinking about law schooling as a j.d. production onl

today governor martin o'malley visited the epicenter of the crisis the baltimore city detention center. the latest reform unveiled today an electronic system that intercepts cell phone signals and renders the phone useless for anything but a 911 call. >> our actions to make sure detainees don't have aspect to cell phones is one aspect of what we're doing to make our facilities more secure. >> reporter: scott broom, wusa9. >>> 50 years ago today the beatles made history right here in this country. >> plus new unemployment numbers are out, those stories and more making headlines in your world in 90 seconds. >> the economy added only 113,000 jobs in january, much less than the 170,000 some analysts expected. still the unemployment rate fell to a more than five year low of 6.6%. >> the fact of the matter is undeniable the trend is improving. >> after years of congressional gridlock over the farm bill president obama signed it into law in michigan friday. the bill cuts $800 million a year from the food stamp program and replaces billions in direct payments to farmers with expanded access to

that man was recording last sunday as baltimore county and maryland state cops made a handful of arrests over a public disturbance in towson. we shonould te the man with the camera was not arrested, nor did he file a complaint. however, that video hit the internet and went viral and that's what sparked the investigation now underway by the baltimore county police. >> cameras are always on, always on. >>> a few million here, a few there and pretty soon you're talking real money. today the folks who run d.c., maryland and virginia were talking real money that they've just committed to making your ride on metro a little better. >> agreed in principle that the three jurisdictions will each this year contribute, put up $25 million, so that we can purchase more high capacity trains on metro to obviously deal with all the issues with the tremendous growth that we have with metro. >> metro is in the midst of a huge upgrade. that includes a transition from the six-car train to the eight- car train. metro's general manager calls today's $75 million commitment a key downpayment on the future. >>> y

the baltimore airport, a big hub for southwest, we are told their runways are open now, but of course, most flights have been canceled. and if you can see down by my feet this is really turn going a wet slush. the concern is as the temperature drops this could freeze. that is really going to make the roads hazardous, so the advice still is stay inside. this is not over yet, and in fact, there is some speculation about what will happen with the federal government tomorrow. will it still be closed? we don't know yet, but a lot of folks getting the day off today. >> and because you are in the nation's capitol, we have to be politically correct, that you can make a snow woman as well. but how are the people in the suburbs fair >> reporter: there are only a few power outages, that's the good news. power companies have hundreds of crews standing by in case it gets worse. but i have talked to a number f people in the suburbs who say there is a foot of snow or more on the roads. >> and lisa you have been in town long enough to remember when washington, d.c. suffered the same fate as atlanta a

this looks to be all snow from philadelphia to nigh a even i-95 down to baltimore and washington, d.cnge could happen as warmer air gets pulled in. then back to snow as the moisture wraps around and the cold air approaches from the west. it won't end until friday at around 3:00 in the morning. the heavy snow band by 6:00 in the morning, then mixing from baltimore up through philadelphia, washington, d.c., up through new york then snow to rain in boston, and then back snow by 11:00. so a lot of snow the farther west you go. >> finally, a wire fox terrier taking the top prize at the westminster job show. >> at this 138th westminster kennel club show, best in show this evening is a wire fox terror. >> the ginger and white dog no stranger to success. he has 129 blue ribbons for best in show. i'm del walters in new york. thanks for watching. "the stream" is next. >> hi, i'm lisa fletcher, and you're in "the stream." is it time to reset the conversation about motherhood and success? we ask if feminism and science and pop culture have led women astray. you're digital producer, rang raj is he

the baltimore sun spoke with rice's attorney who say the woman was rice's fiancee. the attorney called the altercation mino his fiancee ha released. the baltimore ravins said we're aware of the friday night situation with ray rice and his fiancee. we have spoken with ray and know they returned home together after being detained. >>> the race is on to be maryland's next governor and with just four months until the primarily, lieutenant governor anthony brown carved out a pretty comfortable lead over the democratic field. 35% of likely voters support brown over gansler and mizeur. 40% say they are still undecided. the republican race is still up for grabs. larry hogan has 13% of the vote but 68% say they are still undecided. that primary is june 24th. >>> a memorial will be field for the police reservist whose body was found. kevin quick went missing a little more than two weeks ago. he left his mother's house and never showed up to a friend's party. his suv and body were found days later outside richmond. four people are charged in connection with his death. >>> tomo

from baltimore down through d.c., back toward culpeper.nties in white to the north and west, those are winter storm warnings for snow, sleet and freezing rain, especially north of i-70. could be one to two inches of snow and sleet before the ice. that goes till 10:00. 10:00 a.m. on the advisories of howard, montgomery and loudoun. if they get changed to advisories, that wouldn't surprise me. this is for ice for the most part. the slickness, that's going to cause trouble tomorrow. this morning clouds are trying to come in west to east but still plenty of breaks with that. temperatures as i said, at or below freezing so we have many slick spots. gaithersburg is 25. 27 in frederick. even down in la plata 29. 32 in cambridge and easton. so watch out for that. but later today a dry day. high temperatures around that 40-degree mark. trouble tonight. what about trouble this morning on the commute? here's trouble herself, monika samtani. >>> oh, thank you. i'll take that as a compliment, howard, thank you. yes, cue have an icy windshield. it may t

a camera snapped this vehicle on west old baltimore road twice in 2012 for a total of $80 in fines. >> i want my money back. >> reporter: his appeal denied even though in this september interview officials acknowledged operating cameras never printed in a newspaper. >> it was activated for a portable camera in 2012. >> reporter: and the activation as a portable camera was never published. >> correct. >> reporter: the ticket stood officials said because drivers admitted to speeding by paying their $40 fines. in august 2013 during our investigation the county tried to settle the issue by publishing a comprehensive list of locations, but that didn't settle anything for drivers like kumar who was ticketed in 2012. >> these cameras were for the first time in this location. so not a lot of people were aware. >> reporter: tickets are issued to registered owners. when the camera snaps kumar's vehicle, he said a relative was driving. when we came to west old baltimore road last week, the camera was gone. >> if it was illegal, i need my money back. >> reporter: for comparison in prince george's

that means we're going to get a little bit of freezing rain for baltimore down to d.c. and culpeper. maybe up to .500 of an inch of ice. roads will be treated. i know the road crews are on top of it. you get into the white counties into howward, montgomery and loudoun, that's a winter storm warning for little more freezing rain, maybe sleet mixing in. a quarter inch of ice. that's the top end should it be colder as long as possible. then up north, now we're worried about areas along the pennsylvania border in caroll county and frederick county. we're talking about an inch of snow or sleet perhaps with up to a quarter of an inch or more of ice. west of 81 has the highest danger. here's the storm snowing heavily across missouri. freezing rain heavily across parts of arkansas. at this hour we're looking at temperesill below freezing north. we're up to 36 on our way to perhaps 40 degrees. it's going to be tonight from around maybe 9:00, 10:00 till about 6:00 in the morning. could be below freezing. perhaps 10:00 or 11 up north. that will be the critical time frame. tomorrow

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new york city, southward to philly, around the baltimore, washington, area. already reports about 10 inches of snow around towson in maryland. so it's really coming down. we're going from shivering to shoveling in the northeast. the snow worked its way up into southern new england. it's snowing in providence. that snow will arrive in boston for the morning commute. along the coast, we are seeing a changeover to rain here. the frozen precipitation working westward. richmond, after about 3 or 4 inches of snow, some freezing rain. we're starting to see a mix now toward the nation's capital. that will hold down snowfall amounts in these areas. north and west, more snow. a good 8 to 14 inches, some places even a bit more. now near the coast, they'll start off as snow, 3 to 6 inches in boston expected, down toward new york city and philly, half a foot. and then around baltimore and washington, 6 to 10. but more to the north and west. and getting very windy here, too. a lot of problems today. good luck getting into work this morning in the northeast. >> all right, a

for washington, philly, baltimore, you'll see the snow until 3am in the morning. in new york we had rain and thunder going through in that rain. it's embedded. we'll change over to freezing as well as snow. that will happen about midnight. it will go on to 5am. we expect to see 3-5 inches of snow. maybe eight inches up here towards jersey, bringing totals for the event to about 18-20 inches. compared to other years in 2006, we saw a storm dropping 26.9. in 1996, 20.2. close to the top five, top 10 event, towards the north-west it is the flooding. that's been going on for days. we don't expect to see a break over the next couple of days. if you want to know what is happening - look at the temperatures. sochi on friday. 67 degrees in the higher elevations. 62. that's a look at the weather. news is next. >> in egypt archeologists uncovered an ancient mummy. according to egypt's antiquities minister, it dates back to 1600 b.c., found in a wooden sar cough iing us, enraved and decorated with feathers. egypt says it's been struggling to preserve treasures during the unr

aging infrastructure is resulting in costly water main breaks in places like baltimore and syracuse and this one in e detroit. the relentless storms have led to the largest flight cancellations and in more than 25 year, and more than 75,000 domestic flights are cancelled since september 21st. this winter's weather is taking a toll. awe gugusta's national golf clud minimal damage except for the famous tree named after dwight eisenhower who in the 1950s asked the club to cut it down, because it got in his way of the tee shot, and the storm got what the sitting president couldn't, because it was cut down over the weekend after being damaged by the ice. >> and now all of the snow that we have gotten in the area has meant that a lot of the local kids have spent presidents' day in school. in virginia and fairfax and stafford and frederick countys are among those that were open today. in maryland, st. mary's, and charles county students had to go to school, and a lot of the school systems are trying to determine whether to shorten the erecess or lengthen the school days the make up for the sno