balanced before the arrival of hundreds of new families coming to harford county because of the new brac job at aberdeen proving ground. some pants say it's not a good move for their children. >> we moved from another harford county community to come to fallston for a reason. now within less than two years, we are going to be told our children will have to now be moved to another school. >> reporter: the board hopes to vote on a final plan by february. and in the meantime, parents will be able to go to more public meetings and talk to the school board members directly about their concerns. and also, parents can log on to the school website to talk about the comments as well. as also abc2news.com for more information. reporting live in bel air, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> changes could be -- could be coming to baltimore schools. everything is on the table for the new task force. the mayor and city schools chief announced that the panel yesterday will exist and try to come up with clever ways to finance city school buildings. some of the city schools are so old, oldest in the state and

system said the county scuse need to be under capacity -- schools need to be under capacity for the bracprocess. >> sometimes when you get to a paint like this where we have schools that are severely overcrowd, we need to balance out and that mean entire county. >> reporter: the harford county school board has several public meetings scheduled before voting on the plan which is expect to happen in march. parents can comment at the meetings. in the studios, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> a man has been sentenced to 20 years for sexually abusing a 9-year-old frederick girl. a judge sentenced the 29-year-old this week in frederick county circuit court. plead guilty in september to the sex abuse charges of a minor and second degree sex offense charges. he will be deported back to mexico after serving his prison term. >>> also this morning a. man accuse of trying to shoot a carroll county sheriff deputy is set to be tried in march. brian hill of baltimore city waived his right to a speedy trial this week. he is charged with attempted first degree murder and other offenses. hill is accused of

schools in time for the new arrival of new families because of the base realignment and closure or bracrocess. >> sometimes when you goat a point like this where we have schools that are severely overcrowded week need to balance out. >> aid very rough transition from elementary to middle. and -- it's a very rough transition from elementary to middle he. when you have no one around you that you know and is your friend. maybe six to 10 i don't think that's the right way to go about this. >> reporter: the harford county school board has public meeting scheduled before vote on the plan. it's expected to happen in march. parents can comment at the meetings. >>> a man accused of trying to shoot a carroll county sheriff deputy is expected to go on trial in march. brian hill waived his right to a speedy trial. he has been charged with attempted murder. his attorney said he need time to prepare for the defense. maryland law would have required hill be be tried before february 9th. he was accused of trying to shoot a detective back on june 14th after webb pulled him over. the deputy at this appro

to be more balanced before the arrival of new families come into harford county because of the new brac jobs. parents are not happy about this. they showed up to let the school members know it. >> i am a mother of three school age children and i have to explain to them they will no longer be attending their neighborhood school. . >> the board members stressed the plan right now is preliminary and it can be changed. the school board hopes to vote on the final plan by late february between now and -- february. between now and then, several meetings will allow parents to speak to the board. and their comments will be submitted to the school system's website. we have all this information on our website. head to abc2news.com. >>> the push for answers. family and friends want to know how delvonte tisdale with dreams of serving his country as a marine ended up dead nearly 15 hours away from his home. this morning investigators say they are no closer to answer. police in massachusetts are following several different leads. tisdale started north mec high school this year. today, his friends and

they say that needs to be balanced out before the arrivals of new families because of the brac jobs ateen proving grounds. some parents say the move would be disruptive for their kid. >> we moved from another community to come to fallston and in less than two years our children have to be moved to another school. >> reporter: hopes to vote on the final measure is by february. there will be other meetings where parents can still speak their mind and talk to the school board directly. in the meantime, log onto abc2news.com to voice your opinion and comments on there. reporting live in bel air, sherrie johnson. >>> police say a man attacked a woman who was jogging in jessup and sexually assault her. this is one of six similar cases in howard county since march. she fought back and got away. going back to april, three women were touched-appropriately on pathways around oakland mills. in march, two similar incidents happened in columbia. one woman says a stranger grabbed her several years ago. >> it took my peace of mind away. so i just pay attention much more carefully nowadays. >> howard

balanced out before the arrival of hundreds of new families coming to harford county because of the new brac job at aberdeen proving ground. some parents say the move would be disrupting for their kids. >> i'm mother of three school-age children and i have to explain to them that they will no longer be attending their neighborhood school. >> reporter: the school board hopes to have a final vote and a decision by february. but in the meantime, there will be a series of public meetings for parents to come out and voice their concerns and talk to the school board members. and they can go on the school website to voice their comments and you can get more information on that by logging onto abc2news.com. reporting live in bel air, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> a woman jogging in jessup is taken to the ground and sexually assaulted. police are on the lookout for the alleged attacker. this most recent attack is the 6th of its kind since march in howard county. she said she fought back and got away. going back to april three women were touched enappropriately. two similar incidents in columbia. wo

scoodz schools need to be under capacity because of the base he realignment and closure known as the brac process. there's several public meeting scheduled which is before they vote on the plan. in the studio, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> now latest an police contract. officers overwhelmingly voted against the one-year contract with a 95% of the members saying no. the new contract included a 2% pay cut as well as five more vacation daysch president of the fop said the officers want to be recognized for their hard work and sacrifice. in a statement, the mayor says she is disappointed with the results but remains confident that the city and officers can come to an agreement. >>> police are investigating a vehicle break-in at the home of mayor stephanie rawlings-blake. a city police spokesperson says when the mayor's husband got into the car yesterday morning, he noticed several things had been taken. police say the mayor's protection detail was in place overnight, but the vehicle was parked out of the line of sight. >> aid learning experience for police, but at the end of the day or comp

he brought up brac -- why can they do that anymore -- why cannot they do that anymore? why cannot we have more of that? within the tea party, there are a lot of differences. i do not think that the tea party voters want gridlock. >> is one to be incredibly difficult -- it is going to be incredibly difficult. 2/3 of republicans say that president obama is trying to do in your vocable harm to the country and they should not work with him. tea party -- is trying to do era vocable -- irrevocable harm to the country and they should not work with him. the president will force them to address these issues. he will see this opportunity. it may not be good policy -- there are a set of policies on energy that virtually everybody supports. republicans and democrats will need to pass something to show that they can act for the country's interest. i think energy is one of the most likely. it will probably figure out something on the taxing -- they will probably figure out something on the tax thing. the president has opportunities. >> circumstances are going to force this, too, part

emoyees would be moved to the ne center as part of a base realignment and closure process also known as brace recommendation comes after increased pressure om congressman jim moron. he wants the move to be suspended or delayed until transportation improvementsre wade. moran says traffic would be a nightmare for anyone who lives or works in alexandria. >>> d.c. police are on the lookout for someone grabbing iphones right t of people's hands. there were at least four robberies over theweekend in northwest washington. in each case the victims were approached while talking or carrying their iphones. the popular phones have also en stolen off of restaurant tables. police caution people to be aware of their surroundings and avoid walking alone and talking alone at night. >>> president obama will present the nation's highest civilian honor early next year. former presidents george h.w. bush and poet maya angelou are among the presidential medal of freedom honorees. here's a look at some of the other 15 winners. investor warren bfett. civil rights leader congressman john lewis. st. louis cardinals h

for the darkness knowing that he had been rejected in this new land he had chosen for himself and brac to all people back in monroe and louisiana and so i wanted to recreate that. we needed as far as you arizona. was there that my parents said, as i began to fear of the road -- i had rented a buick by the way as he had driven -- and said if you had seen a road map you would have wanted to. [laughter] so i rented a buick and we got to the part where i was during off the road and i parents said we must stop the car. the hidden through jim crow and had to go through the experience must know in a letter to the people to stop or debtor up and pack all the food you might possibly need, all of the ice radiator went out and make sure you have a spare tire, so all the efforts the to go through for a simple drive. so my parents had been through that and said to me as i was veering off the road stopped the car. we've been through this before ourselves, and if he will stop, let us out. [laughter] so we stopped in human arizona and i felt very disheartened because he hadn't had that choice but it w

. >>> the department of defense under question for brac changes. >>> wal-mart locations planned for the future. >>> and the air and space museum about to reveal big changes and holly has the sneak peek coming up later this morning.  >>> stories making headlines this morning. big changes could be coming to the d.c. welfare system, including a five-year cap on benefits. marion barry introduced a bill to limit government assistance to five years. he said he wants everyone to be self-sufficient and the government to help make them that way. some say children and adults will be left hungry. one father said he wants to work, he just needs a chance. >> i want to work. i want to show my son, my family, i want to show myself that i can do it, i can make a change. i'm willing to go out there and try, put forth 100%. >> right now there are 42,000 people in d.c. receiving assistance. counselman tommy wells said he will not move this bill forward. barry said he is willing to make changes and revisit the issue. >>> the department of defense under investigation for the way it wa

between the war m i brac i would go home and have no idea where i was and that is probably the most terrifying thing, psychological effect that i suffered. so it sprang out of bed in a free in the morning at under darkness at home in columbia, south carolina and began sprinting around my apartment running into things because i had no idea where i was. w. that, i think my brain hadnd adapted doing that kind of workd and i don't suffer those kind of things anymore.. >> you know, they have some really good pastas in mogadishu, you quote yourself as saying, te sarenthe expression on your parents face is rather priceless. why ledid you conclude that?uese >> i came home from somalia in late 2007 and crashed moved in with my parents. i think they at first struggle to understand what it was i was dealing with. the memories, the experiences, the disillusionment being broke and feeling under appreciated. just the sheer psychological effects of covering more. there were a few, i think, tends dinners as they tried to tease out of me what was troubling me. and it was not always pretty. >> here it is. "war

host: this morning, this piece is in the "washington post which brac five myths -- washington post." five myths about george w. bush. george w. bush was an uninformed texas cowboy. nobody loved this more than bush himself. he went to great lengths to depict itself as a down-home texan whom voters could relate to. reporters watched him climb into his sub and drawdown the rows of his -- suv and drive down the roads of his ranch. that was at odds with his upbringing. his family moved to west texas seeking to establish an economic beachhead in the region's oil industry. his grandfather served as a u.s. senator from connecticut. much of the writings included works by journalists such as bob woodward and it challenges this portrait of chaney running the white house. we see instead that bush, surrounded by political advisers such as karl rove, did not allow power to move too far away from his control. cheney opposed the decision to fire reinfeldt -- rumsfeld and resented the fact that the president would not pardon "scooter" libby. he opposed the t.a.r.p. funding. next, down from ohio. -- d

eyewitness the 9/11 commission and brac.not to mention social security which was mentioned earlier perhaps i think by senator conrad. my low expectations are based on the fact that unfortunately more often than not a commissions turn into obscurity and i do have some concerns over the design of this. unlike the 9/11 commission, know that two-thirds of the members of this commission are either appointed by the president or by his party. i know that the results of this commission are not due until after the next election, and according to press reports, some innate administration would like to take health care off the table. time will tell whether or not this commission is an exercise in political expediency, an exercise in futility, or an actual first step in saving america from fiscal calamity. i certainly believe that they can be the latter. i think the first challenge that we have in the commission is whether or not we can even agree on what fiscal responsibility looks like. although i believe most of us believe in a balan

eyewitness the 9/11 commission and brac.not to mention social security which was mentioned earlier perhaps i think by senator conrad. my low expectations are based on the fact that unfortunately more often than not a commissions turn into obscurity and i do have some concerns over the design of this. unlike the 9/11 commission, know that two-thirds of the members of this commission are either appointed by the president or by his party. i know that the results of this commission are not due until after the next election, and according to press reports, some innate administration would like to take health care off the table. time will tell whether or not this commission is an exercise in political expediency, an exercise in futility, or an actual first step in saving america from fiscal calamity. i certainly believe that they can be the latter. i think the first challenge that we have in the commission is whether or not we can even agree on what fiscal responsibility looks like. although i believe most of us believe in a balan