police say addicts are traveling along the highway to baltimore. sometimes twice a day to get their fixes. tonight, fighting back against crime investigator jennifer donelan hits the road to take us to the source of the supply. >> heroin highway. travel interstate 70 from baltimore to hagerstown. >> i don't remember how many times >> my son overdosed three times. >> i have seen even young kids doing it. >> driving to virginia. >> any drug epidemic that virginia has ever seen. >> heroin killed him. 47% pure. he didn't have a chance. >> we are having babies experiencing withdrawal. jennifer: up and down the road everyone blamed demand on the wave of the pain pill abuse. the cheaper the option is heroin. >> it is so much easier to get and quicker. for the supply, fingers pointed to baltimore. a heroin strong hold since the '40's. just up the highway. >> my family member. that is what he was doing. back and forth to baltimore. >> james piles is the former maryland state police major. we learned through the investigation a young girl put 10,000 miles in

. >> baltimore is home to the performance artist. it's an appropriate setting to research violence and economic despair. >> i think that-- that poverty is now considered some kind of a disgrace, some kind of a pathology. >> smith has received countless accolades and awards. in popular culture she's best known for her tv work on nurse jackie and the west wing, and films like the american president. >> i think that, you know, michael douglas was a good president, but martin sheen was a really good president too. >> i spoke to anna deavere smith in new york. >> your work outside of mainstream television tackles some of the biggest social issues facing our country right now. i'm wondering how you're influenced by your own childhood. growing up in baltimore during a time of segregation. >> well, i guess two things about that. one, when i was a girl, my grandfather said, "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." so i took that and applied it to some things i was learning in the conservatory when i studied acting. and i had this goa

it was 1998 when i decided to take it to baltimore. there's no one reason to point my finger on, but i thought the city felt the culture of the brand i wanted to build. as it was government, it was also an individual landlord who gave me a chance. if you believe in a young person, give them an opportunity. as we grew and got to that million dollar level where i was able to attract my first loan, and that loan was as a result of the small business administration. it's important we all recognize the role that the sba can play. at the time, the first loan from the sba was a 200 $50,000 loan that you must get a banker to agree to back you. for me, it was a woman who ran at the time's the adams national bank, the oldest women's own bank and the united states located on k street and washington, d.c. it was her believe in me that allowed us to grow. we went public in 2005. this last year we closed the quarter were way more than quadrupled that number just short of $4 billion u.s. revenue. as impressive as those numbers are, it is something we

juan williams: thurgood marshall was born in baltimore maryland in 1908. and it's just 12 years earlier in 1896, that you had the supreme court ruling in plessy v ferguson. that's the ruling that says that "separate but equal" is the law of the land in the united states. the supreme court is affirming the separation of the races. larry s gibson:at the time of the civil war, baltimore had the largest free black population of any american city. and through a combination of laws, and in practices, the city became much more racially segregated around about the time when thurgood marshall was born. narrator: marshall grew up a short distance from downtown baltimore on the west side in an african-american neighborhood scattered with european immigrants. his father william worked as a waiter on the railroad. a man with a sharp wit who was sometimes described as cantankerous, he would visit the baltimore city courthouse and then argue the cases with his son over dinner. his mother norma was an educated articulate woman who taught in baltimore's segregated schools

special correspondent sarah varney has our report from baltimore.s story was produced in collaboration with our partner kaiser health news. >> reporter: the street protests that erupted in west baltimore after 25 year-old freddie gray died while in police custody brought attention to the staggering poverty and violence in the city's impoverished neighborhoods. in sandtown-winchester, where gray lived, the dismal health and low life expectancy rivals some of the world's poorest countries. that's especially striking in a city world renowned for its prestigious medical schools and public health research. men and women in sandtown live, on average, just 69 years, a decade below the rest of the country. health officials say infants here die at almost twice the national average. >> ♪ we shall overcome. >> reporter: and adults are felled by heart disease, prostate cancer and aids with shocking frequency. pastor derrick dewitt of first mount calvary baptist church in sandtown prays for an end to his neighborhood's ill health but preaches self-reliance. >> y

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the guy next to him is jack dunn, the owner of the baltimore orioles. george was so young that, in order to hire him, dunn had to become george's legal guardian. >> they go to spring training, and the baltimore sun starts referring to george ruth as "jack dunn's baby," and by may of that year, it had been shortened to "babe ruth." >> soon, fans could tune in to pitching for the boston red sox. but he was even more valuable as a slugger. he moved on to the championship yankees and stardom. but he always made time for his fans, especially young ones. >> there are many stories about the babe coming home from yankee stadium after a game, and he would stop the car if he saw a game of ball going on, and get out and play with the kids because he just was like that. >> babe ruth had a heart as big as yankee stadium. mike told me the story of babe's promise to kid dying of a rare disease. it was a promise that seems to have helped save the young fan's life. >> over here, you see a bunch of baseballs all signed by babe ruth, but the one second in from the left is

you start getting -- betweenween baltimore and philly, i think ik that's where there's going toree beomewhat of a bull's eye up there.th here's the latest wintertinte weather warnings out there. basically you can see d.c. isd i not included. ilu half of montgomery county not included, prince george's georg' county not included.nclud. those counties bordering i-70boi and back up i-95 towardsowards philly that's basically where bc we're going to end up with u wih something so we have a winterhan storm watch in place.la the purple is the winterhe w weather advisory back out toacko the west. th the thinking here there'sether going to be a little bit moreitm snow north and east because it will come under the effect of e the clip erin initially anditia then get a little bit snowit from the coastal that t develops, too, so there's aso ts couple of chances for snowf chaw there. here in town now it'st' 36 degrees, dulles 32, 32, winchester you're cold,ol martinsburg super cold, too.old, clear skies back out west this w morning, so that's allowing aow temperatures to rapidly dropid d off. looks

you can call it baltimore orioles play now. babe ruth could probably have blasted a long ball right on over to the next stop on our tour. other building. this is kind of like a state sports museum. it's called "sports legends," babe ruth in here, too. come on. i'll show you around. >> maryland's great teams and athletes are showcased here. but mike and i were on a mission, so there was no time to huddle. >> [ chuckles ] >> we walked right past all kinds of amazing displays on our way to something even more amazing. >> a place that you will remember for the rest of your life. come on into this room. this is kind of a special space. it is called the archives. and this is where we process all of the 10,000 artifacts that we have in our museum, but the stuff that gets put into safekeeping comes back into this room, which is the vault. look at the vault. >> the vault is jam-packed with sports history -- from the recent past... >> cal ripken's cleats are here. >> ...to way back when. football players, olympians -- if they made their

baltimore police same or recklessly the 27-year-old woman who was hit is expected to survive -- baltimoreice say a rack illicitly the (phone ringing) you can't deal with something, by ignoring it. but that's how some presidential candidates seem to be dealing with social security. americans work hard, and pay into it. so our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. (elephant noise) (donkey noise) hey candidates answer the call already. kimberly: learning new details about the deadly crane collapse in new york city. the crane smashed onto the street in lower manhattan friday. this cell phone video capture the moment when it came crashing down. a wall street worker died. crane operators have been trying to secure it. investigators have recovered the crane's movement recording computer. >> it will likely give us the angles of the boom, the pieces that were in action at the time. if he gives us more than that, that would be bonus, but i don't want to set expectations too high. kimberly: the city authorized large tower cranes to resume work today, but the crawler cranes similar to t

are represented in here, the baltimore ravens are here,ere, so anything and everything to do with the state of maryland and sports is here, but there's onet you might be really interested in seeing, and that's a babe ruth game-used bat. >> of course, a bat thishandled with care. >> the first thing i have to do is i have to put on my special gloves -- i want you to put on we deal with artifacts in the museum world, we don't want to get our hand oil all over the artifactts the artifact. okay? that babe ruth used in the yearns -- 1927. so this bat is very special you see that it has seven notches on it. we're not sure if that's >> [ chuckles ] >> ...that he achieved with this. anyway, grab ahold of that. that's a pretty valuable piece of turf you got there right now. louisville slugger. can see -- "george 'babe' ruth" -- personalized. >> well, it's as if the power of the babe is still in the bat.olding a piece of history in your own hands. not only did babe ruth set all sorts of hitting and home-runecords for missing the ball. but as he used to say, "never let the fear of striking out ge

h north of baltimore, all right, t between baltimore and fill a fil there will may actually beayctuaeven, 8-inches, so basically three the to six plus up here in this corridor.corridor. i just don't feel comfortablefoe yet putting in a bull's-eye ofsf where that may be but itt it definitely looks like north of h us is where the heaviest ofes the snow is going to be. big strong coastal area of lowa pressure, look at that thinghing winding up.p. it looks more tropical almost. m it's cold so you don't have to worry about that. back to the west youy see allel this snow all over the place. that's the beginnings of the clipper which is going to come e across starting late this evening and through the day t tomorrow. then it will transfer its tra energy and become a coastal storm tomorrow afternoon andnoon tomorrow evening. eni then things get a little tricky. will that bring snow he intog southern maryland? we're note'n quite there on specifically where we want to be with this storm yet.et. 44 at lunchtime with stillh sti some sun holding on.ng on. then we're cloudy by late thisis afternoo

it is baltimore. >> and you need baltimore because of beaverton. that's what i always felt. >> i don't want people to think there is not that underdog story is something that is there. but if you invest in america, you look and say in the world of all that invests in america. in america, the nortast. the northeast corrjdor, new york is new york, d.c., cat soust the bag. baltimore is an amazing city that i think is just on the come. there are 650,000 people there. if we have our growth, you know, our investor day we said we're going to go to $7.5 billion by 2018. we recognize we're going to bring a lot of well paying jobs and a the love smart people and companies that want support. and we think we can do a great job for our consumer, customer, great job for our community. >> how do you stay optimistic? you have a scorecard. how do you make it so that scorecard is part of a bigger puz puzzle? there are days you create and the markets don't respond. >> everybody will say the same thing. you know, again, with -- in our 11th year as a public company, i

files like -- feels like negative 1 towards baltimore. there's a windchill advisory any effect that remains that way until 9 a&m this morning and then some this should subside. >> temperatures reaching 20s later this afternoon. here's moisture starting to get together with storm system though looks ominous as we continue to go through the day today. pulling in gulf moisture and starting to do so and taking shape through the day today. here's what you can expect. monday morning, snowfall heading up across the region mix line way down south. way into our region by evening hours and that's -- this is the question mark time for us monday evening. how fast does the rain, snow line march north and west. however what it looks like now and awd mol model. agree by the morning commute tuesday it looks like all heavy rain around here. houvrp can we expect. our first guest snap getting together now. i'll bring it together in the next 15, 20 minutes. all right. thank you, mike. if you have a mete kitchen step maingz you he'd nor snacks research found.

come to baltimore. that's the pitch from the organization called live baltimore. it's launching a new effort to sell charm city to people who can't afford d.c. among its arguments, a house in baltimore could cost half of what one in washington goes for. live baltimore is also counting on technology to try to persuade people to move north. >> i think the five day a week commute is something that might be diminishing in the future. it makes baltimore a much more attractive and appealing option than i had in previous years. >> reporter: baltimore has been trying to lure d.r. residents to charm city for years. and you know what? it might be working. a recent survey found that in one day, more than 3600 passengers boarded baltimore trains for washington. >>> a new audit is raising questions about the campaign of mayor vincent gray. they found poll workers received thousands of dollars in cash. auditors also found incomplete records of more than $800,000 in campaign contributions. the report's release comes weeks after gray is expected to announce whether he will make a

we live in west baltimore. he is just a young black kid." >> i did, and i was very scared for myself. >> hinojosa: did you admit that? >> did i admit that? maybe not. but i was, and i remember being very afraid when i thought about my future, all the way up, probably through college, uh, through dropping out of college and probably through the early years of my son's life. i was very much afraid of my own.. about my own future and what would become of me, because, um, it was very much instilled in me that if you did not do good in school, you could expect to have problems in this world. and i never, at no point, you know, during school, higher ed, you know, was never much of a student. the other part of that was i knew very intelligent african americans who had had problems in the world. that was a fact. intelligence insured nothing. so i was very much afraid for my own future. >> hinojosa: but yet you were pretty tough on the outside. >> i was, in ways that probably i didn't understand myself, but i think, you

mark albert is in baltimore with more details. neighbors waved hello as president obama arrived at the islamic society of baltimore. a few protestors lined the motorcade route as well. inside - muslim-americans told president obama about the increased bias they face. president obama: "they talked about how their children were asking, are we going to be forced out of the country? are we going to be rounded up? why would they treat us like that? conversations that you shouldn't have to have with your children, not in this country." mark albert/baltimore, maryland: this is president obama's first visit to a u.s mosque since taking office.. muslim wait. ibrahim hooper/spokesman, council on american-islamic relations: "we've asked him to make such a visit for a number of years now and we're very pleased that he's doing it." ibrahim hooper is the communications director for the council on american-islamic relations. he says muslim-americans are more afraid now than at any time in history - even after 9-11. ibrahim hooper/spokesman, coun

>> camden yards is where the baltimore orioles play now. babe ruth could probably have blasted a long ball right on over to the next stop on our tour. >> well, scotty, this is our other building. this is kind of like a state sports museum. it's called "sports legends," but we got a little bit of babe ruth in here, too. come on. i'll show you around. >> maryland's great teams and athletes are showcased here. but mike and i were on a huddle. >> [ chuckles ] >> we walked right past all kinds of amazing displays on our way to something even more amazing. >> a place that you will remember for the rest of your life. come on into this room. this is kind of a special space. it is called the archives. and this is where we process all of the 10,000 artifacts that we have in our museum, but the stuff that gets put into safekeeping comes back into this room, which is the vault. so come on in and we'll take a look at the vault. >> the vault is jam-packed with sports history -- from the recent past... >> cal ripken's cleats are here. >> ...to way back wh

mark albert for cbs news, baltimore. stacey: after his speech, president obama met with some of the schoolchildren on the mosque grounds. steve: a congressional hearing on the water crisis in flint, michigan results in a flood of finger-pointing. the epa says michigan officials ignored federal advice to treat flint's water, resulting in lead contamination. needed to treat flint's drinking water properly, and in informing the public of on-going health risks, have had serious consequences. steve: but a michigan official , says the epa did not display enough urgency, and allowed the problem to fester for months. one of the anti-abortion activists indicted after making undercover videos about planned parenthood has now turned herself in to texas authorities. sandra merritt appeared in a houston courtroom and posted a $2000 bond. the other activist is scheduled to turn himself in tomorrow. both are charged with tampering with a governmental record. stacey: right now at 5:00, the governor of florida has declared a health emerg

i continue to support the work creating away for people to stay in baltimore, people to move to baltimore, so we can have the city we know we are destined to have. >> mona: families that make 60 percent or below baltimore's median income qualified to live in a complex. >>> five people being arraigned on accusations involving abuse of special needs students at a school in massachusetts. the local district attorney says all five work at the school in great barrington. boys and young men up to the age of 22 who have learning disabilities and behavioral problems. as a shock to the community, but some are reserving judgment. >> we have a good reputation. i have never heard anything bad come out of their. to hear it now that there is maybe allegations of something going on is surprising. >> before we saw in los angeles a story about teachers being accused and they were found innocent. before we condemn anyone, we have to make sure. >> mona: four of the five people are charged with assault and battery on a disabled person. the fifth was charged with obstruction of justice and witness intimidatio

i mean baltimore is home. baltimore is where -- >> but -- i'm from philly. you have the bigger chip on your shoulder. you have more of a complex than baltimore. >> i started my company in georgetown, washington, d.c. there my mother and long line of history from d.c. and we moved to baltimore, people asked why. i said i can't tell you. something drew me. there you know why? culture, the ethos, the work boots, lunch pail, that attitude is under armour. it is baltimore. because of beaverton. that's what i always felt. there is not that underdog story is something that is there. but if you invest in america, you look and say in the world of all that invests in america. in america, the northeast. the northeast corridor, new york is new york, d.c., cat soust the bag. baltimore is an amazing city that i think is just on the come. there are 650,000 people there. if we have our growth, you know, our investor day we said we're going to go to $7.5 billion by 2018. we recognize we're going to bring a lot of well paying jobs and a the love smart people and companies tha

this is around -- that was baltimore, hartford county. that's a severe thunderstorm warning until 7:15. you see the line. the line extending down through baltimore, through anne arundel, and then it breaks up a little bit and then it's back down to the south down towards charles county. charles county, if you live around laplata, live around waldorf, this storm means business. a lot of lightning associated with this storm too and you can see that line extending farther down to the south in through parts of the northern neck. the northern neck go we're not seeing the rain around frederick, around leesburg. starting to see things calm a little bit back to the west and that's what we'll continue to see through the night tonight. one thing we will also see, the wind change direction. see cooler temperatures. we're not out of the woods just yet and we'll see more rain. there's more rain back to the west with the system. look how long this line is and this is the storm we're going to be watching. this is the most intense storm coming through th

watching the baltimore colt players. seen him run a touchdown back. kickoff. championship game. you know? holy cow. we are here. that was cool. being able to, run on that field. you could have paid me, $5. i would have went out there and played football. >> this indepth with graham basinger brought to you by it srt witnglennecand netws bo berearniugh ack of a help r r ki' e ti bearnicash ywheery 2% back at the grocetoreevene sh k on katie used her bankamericard cash rewardst ca towarm toastng heatmpetofbanear jerry rice. greatest nfl players of all time. super bowl 29 would prove off to be an historic one for rice's 49ers. starting with the touchdown reception in the first drive of the game. the team came out in full force, quarterback, steve young threw for six touchdowns. with rice alone catching three of the six. tying his own record for super bowl receptions. their 49-26 victory would make them the first team in history to win five superbowls. but rice was always looking ahead to the next season, showing his unmatched dedication to the sport. steve young. >> your former team

we are live outside the mosque in baltimore. what is the significance of this visit? >> it's the president's first trip to a mosque on u.s. soil. he traveled to those in malaysia and the middle east, but the president is here because there is an ongoing campaign to fight unfair islamphobic resurrect on the campaign trail and elsewhere that is on the rise after the attacks in paris and son better than. continuing ramping up of rhetoric is resulting in his visit to the mosque. last month, he again forcefully repudiated those who would unkilling in anti muslim rhetoric. he said it's unamerican and inspires and gives hope and impetus, momentum, helps the cause of isil recruiters when they can trumpet this kind of rhetoric spoken by political leaders pointing to that, saying that this is a reason why you should come and. >> isil. the president making an historic appearance, really, at this islamic society outside baltimore. >> why not earlier? president obama has visited mosques during his official trips to the middle east, so southeast asia. he has never accepted prefers

obama used his visit to the islamic society of baltimore to condemn anti-muslim rhetoric from the cameain trail and to find a way forward together. >> reporter: president obama came to this mosque outside of baltimore to deliver a history lesson, part for conciliation, and for fair play and justice, but there was an edge to the president's remarks. a reaction to much of the anti-muslim rhetoric that's being heard from the right on the campaign trail. for many muslims listening to president obama, it was a message that they had been waiting for. >> you fit in here. you're right where you belong. you're part of american too. you're not muslim or american, you're muslim and american. >> reporter: part what have brought mr. obama to baltimore, heightened islam phobia from paris and san bernardino. >> as muslim americans, you have another concern, that's your entire community so often is targeted or blamed for the violent acts of the very few. >> reporter: mr. obama slammed anti-muslim rhetoric from leading republican presidential candidates, a major issue for many of the muslims in the aud

baltimore, d.c., i-95 north and westward. fredericksburg and down towards southern maryland, this may stay all rain for you, at least mostly rain, but to the north where we are expecting the heaviest snow totals this, will stay all snow. here is 5:00 tomorrow afternoon. 11:00 tomorrow night. still dealing with the snow and then it's all out of here by early on menwednesday. we have you at 1 to 3 inches, warrenton, d.c., waldorf. d.c. an inch, inch and a half at the airport. fredericksburg, not much at all. to the north we're expecting 1 to 3 in fairfax. here is the 3 to 6, columbia, federal ri frederick, gaithersburg. we expect to see significant school closures during the day tomorrow so make sure you download the nbc washington app. great area to do that to find out about those closings. 38 tomorrow. 38 on wednesday. and then it's just plain cold. 29 a high on thursday. 32 on friday. windchills on thursday in the single digits. we're talking the coldest air of the season and it gets even colder for the valentine's holiday.

the bull's-eye will be frederick to baltimore storm, four to six there. one burst of snow overnight an temperatures above freezing. that's good. slick roads north and west because there you will see a couple of inches with temperatures closer to freezing and another burst is possible tuesday afternoon and the problems will be slick roads tomorrow night and wednesday morning even downtown as temperatures get to freezing or below. we will put this futurecast into motion. by 5:30, 6:00 snow and temperatures above freezing and by 9:00, good snow in dc and prince county and george county. >>> 37 by one p.m. now, leftover snow showers or flurries possible on wednesday. 37 and then artic air in the 20s on thursday. maybe a flurry then and maybe a snow shower on saturday and temperatures do not make it above freezing for four days and temperatures finally above freezing. >>> super bowl 50, the third most watched tv event in history. 112 million americans turned into watch the broncos beat the panthers. last week's super bowl between new england and seattle was th

mike viqueira is outside of the islamic society of baltimore. that was a pretty remarkable talk that seemed to be interrupted by applause at times. it seemed to be very personal at times. take it away. >> you know, i thought it was an optimistic speech. there is no question about it, richelle, reconciliation, calling for mutual respect among all parties concerned, appealing to the better nature of human kind, and basic american values of cooperation and respect of other creeds and other faiths. but at the same time i think a lot of this what the president has been saying and including this speech, and what brought him to baltimore to speak at the islamic society, frankly, is the fact that he's somewhat annoyed and maybe angry over some of the rhetoric he has heard last couple of months on the campaign trail, and in the wake of the attacks in paris and san bernardino. yes, a call for reconciliation, and a call for empathy. here is more of what the president said just a few moments ago. >> you also could not help but be heartbroken to hear their w