that line as you go up towards pennsylvania, toward harrisburg, that's a more beefy, impressive looking line. some of these storms could end up being pretty impressive as they come through the baltimore area overnight tonight. again, this evening down in the 70s, cloudy, windy conditions, thunderstorms to the west, moving in our area overnight tonight. we'll talk more about it, also how the weekend shapes up. much cooler. all of that coming up. >>> car insurance premiums could go up for thousands of drivers who carry minimum coverage. a bill on its way to governor o'malley will increase basic coverage levels. roosevelt leftwich joins us with the latest. >> reporter: it could raise pr premiums by as much as $300 a year. opponents say it will help lawyers. the bill would raise coverage levels from $20,000 per person to $40,000 per crash to 30,000 per person and $60,000 per crash. in many cases, the maximum isn't enough to pay a victim's medical bills and hospitals get stuck with unpaid bills. opponents say this is nothing but an attempt by trial lawyers to get more money. they say the hig

these were big, beefy, you know, bull scientists but the comedy and the tragedy of this is that theye powerful men but their work was far behind them, especially in math. you do it -- it is like a soccer player. you peak in your mid to late 20's. their grandeur rested on something 40 years back. i thought if i get down to writing this novel, here and now, i'm awarding them nobel prize letting him coast for the rest of his life, doing no more soirnings doing politics of science, making the grand applications but never having an original thought ever again. tavis: the protagonist in the story is a nobel laureate who has to your point now, his heyday is line him but he finds himself in a particular space in time where he has a shot at doing something contemporary. >> i have to say my main character, michael beard, is a complete scoundrel. not above thieving another man's work. one of his gifted students is an -- in an accident and dice and he steals his work on -- dies and he steals his work on photosynthesis. he splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. if we could copy that we would solv

>> i've got it tell you, i read the complaint, and it looks very beefy. it does look like they have a very strong case, if they have evidence to support all the allegations that are in that complaint, i would say this is going to be a horse race here. and typically, you know, the sec really blew it with the madoff investigation. they dropped the ball and i think they have a chip on their shoulder. the commission has something to prove here. and by alleging that the golden boys of wall street engaged in this type of fraud, that is very, very significant. >> matt, let me play devil's advocate. if they only made $15 million off this transaction, goldman, why would they take such a risk, assuming these allegations are true, when right now they're just allegations, but why would they take such a risk for $15 million? that's a lot for any citizen, but on wall street for goldman sachs, you know, for the money they make, that's not that much. >> we don't know the entire story here. i've also heard versions where goldman was also short some of these instruments. s