let's check in with jamie costello. >> reporter: the good news is they repaired it. the main broke just after 9:00 this morning. a number of homes and businesses were affected. this was a long tedious task. you want to hear that your water will be fixed in time for dinner tonight. >> won't to the bathroom. flushed the toilet and it was chocolate color. >> reporter: the water main break has been fixed. jamie costello, abc2 news. >> thanks a lot. >> chocolate covered water. you don't want that. that's a bad deal. temperatures in the low 40s and 30s. almost no wind to speak of. so this has been a big improvement weather wise. a few passing clouds. other than that nothing on maryland's most powerful radar. the rest of the evening down into the 40s. it will be less breezy. we'll look ahead to the complete weekend forecast. >>> hollywood returns to baltimore. the state announced that an american remake of the bbc political drama "house of cards" will be filled here in baltimore. kevin spacey will star in it. the series will be based on the novel about margaret thatcher's e

i'm jamie costello.00. >>> here's a preview of what's ahead at 6:30. >>> coming up on world news meet a single mom who put on a hard hat and tool belt and went from minimum wage to almost $30 an hour. see how she did it. i remember the days before copd. my son and i never missed opening day. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might be over. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function, starting within 5 minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. with symbicort, today i'm breathing better, and that means... game on! symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more than twice a day. symbicort may increase your risk of lung infections, osteoporosis, and some eye problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. [ whistle ] with copd, i thought i might miss out on my favorite tradition. now symbicort significantly improves

[ cheers and applause ] there's two elvis costellos. it's my mother's birthday, by the way. >> oh, is it really? >> jimmy: happy birthday, mom. yeah, yeah. >> happy birthday. [ cheers and applause ] so if it's your mother's birthday -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> what's her name? >> jimmy: gloria. >> gloria, okay. [ as costello ] ♪ well, gloria [ unintelligible ] ♪ ♪ candles in the cake [ as costello ] >> jimmy: ♪ blow out the candles in the cake blow out the candles in the cake ♪ [ unintelligible ] ♪ happy birthday happy birthday ♪ gloria ♪ oh [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: the new season of fred armisen's show, "portlandia" starts. ifc, tomorrow night, 10:00 p.m. sharon van etten performs after the break. stick around! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: our next guest will release "tramp," her debut album for jagjaguwar records, on february 7th. she's making her tv debut with us tonight to perform the song "serpents." please welcome sharon van etten! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ it was a close call sitting in the

[ cheers and applause ] there's two elvis costellos.happy birthday." it's my mother's birthday, by the way. >> oh, is it really? >> jimmy: happy birthday, mom. yeah, yeah. >> happy birthday. [ cheers and applause ] so if it's your mother's birthday -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> what's her name? >> jimmy: gloria. >> gloria, okay. [ as costello ] ♪ well, gloria [ unintelligible ] ♪ ♪ candles in the cake [ as costello ] >> jimmy: ♪ blow out the candles in the cake blow out the candles in the cake ♪ [ untelligible ] ♪ happy birthday happy birthday ♪ gloria ♪ oh [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: the new season of fred armisen's show, "portlandia" starts. ifc, tomorrow night, 10:00 p.m. sharon van etten performs after the break. stick around! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ you know the good folks over at prilosec otc have asked yours truly to teach you about treating frequent heartburn. 'cause i know a thing or two about eatin'. if you're one of those folks who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... well that's like checking on your burgers after

jamie costello has more. >> reporter: the folks at the maryland live casino opened the recruitment center. some people waited about an hour to get inside. once they did, they were greeted with an online application process for 1500 jobs. many people have waited for this event to get a foot in the door in the coming casino in the hopes it will and their long wait in the unemployment line. this job would mean what for you and your family? >> it would means the world. >> reporter: while the hiring process started, it could go through the spring. brian kuebler will have more at 6:00. jamie costello reporting. >>> news tonight that jon huntsman has dropped out of the race for the republican presidential followcation -- nomination. huntsman had been concentrating on new hampshire but re-evaluated after coming in third. >> i believe it's time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat barack obama. despite our differences and the space between us on some of the issues, i believe that candidate is governor mitt romney. >>> huntsman was not expected to do well in the south

join jamie costello and scott garceau. >> last night would have been edgar allan poe's birth day andthere was a no show. >> reporter: the so-called poe toaster left a rose. many gathered to watch for him. but like last year and the year before, he never came. >> poe has been around. there's lots of fans. it will not be the end. >> this year, just like the last, at least one impersonator visited. edgar allan poe died in 1849. the poe house curator plans to pay tribute and they hope the readings will turn into a new ritual. >>> the washington monument -- even though the cracks look minor repairing them is, extremely exexpensive. that's where philanthropist david rubenstein comes in. he is donating $7 1/2 million toward the repair efforts. >> i come from modest circumstances. i'm fortunate to have achieved -- wealth. i have the pleasure to giving it away to things. >> officials plan to award a contract to make the repairs by this august. they expect it will take 10 months to complete them. >>> what would you do if you saw a tiger on sop of a roof? some houston drivers called the local f

>>> i'm jamie costello.g up at 6:00, more detailsen that deadly fire that left a mother and daughter dead. what investigators discovered in the home. >>> and hope for people with diabetes and heart disease. we have more on a promising new drug. now here's a preview of what's ahead on world news at 6:30. >>> coming up on world news, decision time in new hampshire. so who's up. who's down and what does it mean going forward. it's your voice, your vote tonight. baby? but we were gonna see the northern lights in alaska. and go spelunking with the guys. yeah, i said it-- spelunking. [ whirring ] and i still haven't built one of those fighting robots. come on. it's pretty awesome. okay. just a few things we need to do first. [ laughs ] [ announcer ] before you make your leap, make a list. then get going in the completely redesigned cr-v. all new, from honda. >>> the maker of twin kyes is -- twinkies is filing for chapter 11. the company is dealing with big debt. the bankruptcy filing could happen as soon as this w

abc2 jamie costello has more. >> reporter: a man was driving on an icy road with his three children inhe tapped on his brakes and ended up sliding down an embankment, ending upside down in a river. the man got out but all three kids were stuck. luckily several people passed to see what was happening. >> the lady was screaming something about kids. i jumped into the river next to the children's father, helping him get in the vehicle. >> reporter: dad and chris weren't able this get the windows down. what did he do. pulls out his handgun and shoots out one of the windows. at that point more than a dozen jumped in and were able to push the car on the side. one by did need cpr. two children had to go to the hospital but are listed in fair condition and are recovering from hypothermia. >>> paying down your debt is easy with the right plan abc2 has tips to help. >>> and a woman was shot in a hunting accident but that's not the only reason she's upset. Ã i remember the days before copd. my son and i never missed opening day. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might

tom costello has been looking into the safety aspect for us tonight. >> reporter: under international law, cruise ships must be able to evacuate their passengers within 30 minutes of an abandoned ship order. but getting 4,200 people off europe's biggest cruise ship took far longer. >> five hours. five hours of struggling while this ship is sinking and trying to go against gravity and trying to pull ourselves up. trying to get away from breaking glass, bodies flying. >> reporter: a potentially deadly mistake, the crew hadn't provided passengers with evacuation training. they have 24 hours to provide evacuation training on cruises lasting seven days or less. in the u.s. most do so before ever leaving port. drills like this one that include learning how to put on a life vest and finding the nearest lifeboat. industry analysts are concerned by reports the crew seemed disoriented. >> the crew forgot their training. they didn't seem to provide the direction, the support. >> reporter: the cruise line injury says accidents such as this one are an extremely rare occurrence in the cruise indust

carol costello is live with more. hi, carol. >> hi, suzanne.ited states is about to become a lean, mean, fighting machine. defense secretary leon panetta will announce half a trillion dollars in cuts. that means trimming the army by 38,000 soldiers and marines will see a drop in soldiers as well. the underlying strategy is to focus on small secret operations like the raid that killed osama bin laden. although when it comes to iran, the president says he's up for anything. >> let there be no doubt, america is determined to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon and lee take no options off the table to achieve that goal. >> but many republicans say the president's desire to snip, snip, snip will hinder america's ability to wage a ground war if that becomes necessary. mitt romney says a leaner, cheaper military will endanger the united states because it not only has to worry about iran but north korea and china, too. >> as president on day one, i will focus on rebuilding america's economy. it's the foundation of our strength. i will reverses m

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> well, speaking of being nickel and dimed at the airport, the folks at the tsa say passengers are leaving a ton of money behind at security checkpoints. in 2010, the tsa collected $409,000 in loose change left in those gray plastic bins. it's raking in the most at jfk, in new york, lax, and atlanta. >>> a growing backlash being chained to e-mail after hours. >>> back now with something a lot of folks can relate to, being tethered to e-mails responding to those messages after you've left the office. it seems many employees are fed up with being unable to disconnect from work e-mail. they're starting to make changes. >> reporter: it is a problem that's only getting worse in our constantly connected world. zlz the first thing i do when i get up is check my blackberry. >> it's pretty much the last thing i look at before i go to bed at night. >> reporter: e-mail all hours of day and night, virtually eliminating the line of being on and off the job. >> i walked down the aisle with my blackberry. >> reporter: that's when he knew he had a problem. he ru

tom costello has more on this. >> reporter: nearly half the orange juice we buy every day comes from brazil. you have to look closely at the packaging to see where the juice you buy is produced in. a letter to the juice industry, the fda said an anonymous american juice company had found low-levels of a fungicide carbendazim in its own juice as well as a competitor's juice. it is not allowed in the u.s. it is used in brazil to kill a mold that is common on orange trees. while florida may be the orange juice state, you have to look closely at what the label says to see where the juice you're buying comes from. many times the label says contains orange juice concentrate from the usa, brazil and sometimes costa rica. the epa says that the samples of the fungicide were very low and should not cause harm. it is safe to drink orange juice. the fda is sampling imported orange juice at the port. says it will block any juice that has these levels of fungicide in orange juice, helping to drive the prices higher. >>> tom costello, thanks. >>> now we turn to politics. last night we came to you f

our report tonight from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: the new rules are meant to avoid the sticker shock of millions of airlines customers experienced when booking online. as of today, the very first price that appears when booking a flight must include all taxes and fees. baggage fees must also be spelled out. no more teasing passengers with low prices that aren't real. >> it's truth in advertising and it's for people who are not regular travelers. >> reporter: southwest and spirit airlines are working to overturn the rules arguing their fares now appear much higher. >> the taxes are rolled in with the ticket price. so when you see that price, you don't know what's tax and what is ticket. >> reporter: on spirit's website today, a warning popped up they're, quote, to high taxes and fees in the ticket price.d and fees in the ticket price ta and fees in the ticket price. the airline websites we checked clearly broke it all down. flying on delta, for example, from atlanta to london heathrow will cost you a total of $899. the ticket price is $308, but the taxes and fees are $591. fly c

with the sportscaster hall of famer scott gar so i am jamie costello and we will get them next year. >> thanks. a lot of heavy hearts after what happened in foxborough yesterday. how are the fans feeling here at home after that loss? let's check in with corinne redman around town where fans are sounding off. what's the word on the street? >> reporter: well,. >> reporter: here the headline on the baltimore sun, left out. fans say no mater what, the disappointing loss they will stick by the team like lynette said. it came down to two lay plays. the missed field goal and missed touchdown pass. and the ravens kept up with the patriots and even having a lead at the end of the third so they went toe to toe with the patriots but from this article one of the quotes says this will go down as one of the most heart breaking losses in ravens history. we do probably -- we could probably all agree because it came down to two plays. and no mater what the plays will be discussed for a long time among fans whether it was right, wrong, or what could have been done differently. but, the headline this m

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> that's our broadcast on a thursday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening, and thanks for joining us on this stormy thirs. >> it has all the makings of a soap opera, and it's unfolding right before our eyes. a politician, his tv star wife and a neighbor holding all the evidence. tonight he answered charges that he abused

carol costello is here with your responses. what are folks saying?oking reagan invoke a candidate today? conservatives claimed the founding father in their core values. some things are timeless. from tim, democrats invoke jfk all the time. allison, as a young voter, the mention of reagan's name in these gop statements has no effect on me. i have no interest in who these candidates are like but in who they are. depending on the baby boomers it may be but for everyone else, not so much. and if they could do just one thing that ronald reagan did, they need to speak up and declare mr. speaker tear down these walls of mistrust between republicans and democrats and start acting like americans and do what they were elected to do. keep the conversation going. facebook.com/carolcnn. >> i like that last one, tear down the republican and democrat -- >> tear down this mistrust. >> carol, check this out. there's a puzzle on the screen. i want to see if you think that you can solve it without buying a vowel? >> pat and vanna were blasted while they did the game sh

back to you. >> tom costello along what's about to be the new dulles line. tom, thanks. >>> the economy remains huge in the gop campaign for president. rick santorum is trying to get a run off of iowa. john huntsman picked up a newspaper endorsement from the boston globe. but that, of course, is in massachusetts. mitt romney who was governor of massachusetts and is assuming he'll do well in nearby new hampshire. so well he spent today in south carolina even though they are two contests away and we are debuting our own poll tonight. for that we go to our political director chuck todd in manchester, new hampshire. chuck, good evening. >> reporter: well, good evening, brian. most of the republican candidates spun the new jobs numbers about the same. happy about the growth but critical of president obama saying his policies are slowing that growth. it's a crucial weekend ahead. this might be the last chance for republicans not named mitt romney to make their best case for what is now a race for second. seemingly confident of his chances in new hampshire, mitt ro

here's jamie costello and scott garceau with more from foxborough. >> reporter: this will go down is one of the all time hurts in baltimore sports history. >> yeah you don't get over one like this in a day or week. it will carry into next season. you don't have to go into overtime to get a sudden death loss which is what the ravens experienced. that close into heading into indianapolis. >> reporter: this is hop close. lee evans we thought he had the touchdown here and thought it was 11:19 left and i saw bob kraft high fiving steven tyler and i thought that's too early. no touchdown and then billy cundiff, 32 yards away, 11 seconds we thought for sure we are going to overtime. >> that's a kick you will make 95% of the time and you think overtime momentum would have been a good thing for him and it ended way too quick. >> disappointing, stunning loss at the end there. congratulations to the patriots. i thought they played a great football game. they are a great football team. always have been and i think two big, strong football teams getting after it. i am proud of our guys and impres

carol costello is in d.c. with more. >> hello, suzanne. tonight millions of middle-class americans struggling to find hope in our state of the union like michael and mora binder. represent what middle-class americans fear the most, they'll sink farther under water on a bad mortgage or lose their jobs, they'll fall out of the middle class, all of that has happened to the binders who find thunderstormselves in an economic place they can't phantom. >> there's not a lot of hope for me right now of, you know, somebody's going to fix this. it feels like, you know, we've got to, you know, buckle down and do everything ourselves and, you know, not expect anybody else to figure it out. >> see, they don't care about allocations president obama is a socialist or mitt romney is richer than god or that newt gingrich may or may not be an influence peddler. now they want help and they want specifics. so when colorado congressman doug lambborn says he'll skip the president's speech because he's heard it all before, and house speaker john boehner calls the

it's where we begin the broadcast tonight with nbc's tom costello at one of the construction projects fuelling these numbers. happens to be in suburban virginia tonight. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. 1,600 people work on this project building a rail line from d.c. to dulles airport. warm air across the country boosted construction jobs nationwide, but that was not the biggest area of growth. the question now though -- can this employment picture last? for a country still struggling to climb out of the great recession of 2008, welcome news. those 200,000 new jobs added in december were the sixth month in a row of at least 100,000 new jobs created and that unemployment rate surprisingly ticked down from 8.7% in november, higher than first thought, to 8.5% in december. >> a lot of families are still having a tough time. a lot of small businesses are still having a tough time, but we are starting to rebound. we are moving in the right direction. >> reporter: what kind of jobs were added? 23,000 in manufacturing. another 23,000 in health care. 50,000 came in transportation and

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> that's our broadcast on a thursday night. you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> well, speaking of being nickel and dimed at the airport, theks at the tsa say passengers are leaving a ton of money behind at security check points. in 2010, the tsa collected $409,000 in loose chain left in the gray plastic bins. it's raking in the most at jfk, will l.a.x. and hartsfield jackson in atlanta. and they get to keep the chain. >>> the big disconnect, a growing backlash againsteing chained to e-mail after hours. and i quit smoking with chantix. knowing that i could smoke during the first week was really important to me. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke -- and personally that's what i knew i needed. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop taking chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of depression or other mental health problems, which cou

tom costello explains federal officials are now on their trail. >> 7:00 a.m.eriff's office. >> reporter: and with a stack of warrants, sheriff's deputies are hunting for deadbeat parents. >> he doesn't live here. >> had you. >> you it's a weekly even daily game of cat and mouse where dads and moms who are behind in child support by hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of dollars have become very good at slipping away. >> how often do you knock on a door like this and nobody's home? >> probably about 90% of the time. >> 90% of the time. >> we knock on a door and there's no answer or the person that we're looking for does not live there. >> reporter: but because it's a civil warrant, if a parent moves across state lines, local police can't go after them. but if they owe more than $5,000 and cross state lines, it becomes a felony. that's where the feds get involved. gerald roy is the hhs deputy inspector general. >> you're talking about a willful intent to avoid paying for your children for their livelihood, for providing the basics that they so deserve. >

with costello?. maybe not. >> i'm going to have my associates search you. >> that was quick. he's done already? >> in that movie "the departed" jack nicholson played frank costello, based on mob boss whitey bulger. i guess he wanted a more accurate presentation. mark wahlberg made a lot of people upset when he revealed to radio that whitey bulger invited him to jail to talk about a movie. some of the victims' relatives told the "boston globe" they're worried bulger might be portrayed a hero. there's no deal on the table yet. >>> monday marks the birthday of martin luther king jr. the civil rights leader would have been 83 years old. to mark the day, crowds are expected at the mlk memorial in washington. the monument you see here started with a dream and a mission to honor the civil rights leader and inspire a nation to continue the mission. it took nearly 15 years and almost $120 million to make it a reality. but the massive monument now stands tall over the national mall. and joining me, one of the

costello: mr. speaker, thank you. mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. costello: mr. speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 3800, the airport and airway extension act of 2012. this bill contains a clean extension of the federal aviation administration's authority to spend from the airport and airway trust fund and carry out airport improvement projects at current funding levels through february 17, 2012. mr. speaker, this short-term extension will hopefully provide us enough time for the house republican leadership to finally appoint conferees to the f.a.a. re-authorization bill. which we passed almost a year ago. work through the remaining policy issues with the other body and send a comprehensive bill to the president. although this has been an unnecessarily difficult and controversial process during the first session of the 112th congress, to move the multiyear f.a.a. authorization measure, i'm ploozed the house and senate

carol costello joins us from washington with more. hi, carol. >> hi, isha, you hear it all the time, we need a president who is not part of the washington establishment, a leader. a president who can change the way washington works. democrats thought that man was barack obama, herman cain thinks that man is newt gingrich. >> speaker gingrich is a patr t patriot, speaker gingrich is not afraid of bold ideas. >> cain and other conservatives say despite gingrich's decades in congress, his post as speaker of the house and his consultant work in d.c., gingrich is more into change than candidate obama ever was. sarah palin put it this way on fox. >> we need somebody who is engaged in reform and isn't afraid to shake it up, shake up that establishment. so if for no other reason, rage against the machine, vote for newt, annoy a liberal, vote newt. >> as political opinion contributor puts it, he, gingrich, has weird ideas, and he's unpredictable. the conservative base figures while romney, who is the establishment candidate will do a modest jo

we are joined in washington with carol costello. >> magical moment?gresswoman gabriel giffords has come to symbolize bipartisanship, and we get teary-eyed when we think about how it used to be, how it could be if only we took a cue from our military. >> when you put on that uniform, it doesn't matter if you're black or white, asian latino, native american, conservative, liberal, rich, poor, gay, straight, when you're marching in a battle, you look out for the person next to you or the mission fails. >> but republicans say mr. obama is not practicing bipartisanship, not with the executive orders and recess appointments. they say they can do better. >> we can make speeches, we could yell at each other, we could pretend that we're barack obama. or we could put the country first. now, i will not compromise but i will be willing to coordinate and to get things done. >> if i get to washington, i can assure you i will meet with the democrat leaders. i want a relationship of respect and rapport. i know they will attack me. that's part of how it works. i will

jamie costello has more. >> reporter: the vote was 408-0. her last piece of legislation will impose tougher penalties on smugglers who use small low planes trying to bring drugs across the mexican border. but this day is about a woman who was gravely wound by a would-be assassin. look at this emotional hug from the president. tears flowed in the east chamber. it was one of the longest house good-byes in recent memory. then it was read that she couldn't speak and she resigned by way of a resignation letter, and then giffords slowly made her way up to john boehner right there to personally hand deliver the letter of resignation. gabrielle's mom was asked about her daughter's future. her mom said gabrielle remembers every boy she ever kissed, every song she ever sang and every bill she ever passed. so upward and onward. >>> joe paterno was laid to rest in a private service. he died two months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. thousands gathered to pay their respect. a campus memorial is scheduled for tomorrow. >>> in tonight's consumer al

jamie costello, abc2 news. >> i had top pinch -- to pinch myself to remind myself it's january 24th. >> to go from a skier's weekend in maryland to a fogged in day and now the sun is back out, blue skies, mid-50s. if you don't like the weather, just wait a day. hey, almost no wind. light breezes. you can see the flag. 52 at bwi and winds are from the west northwest at five. a light breeze. a mild temperature and pretty good january weather. today's temperature melting off most of that one to two inch snow pack, especially north and west of the city. take a look at the weather in motion, the weather bug camera over at the inner harbor showing passing clouds but a bright day a pretty good looking day. here's a look at st. vincent high school. let's give you one more camera, towson at lock raven tech. you can see the weather clearing off. really, this was back and forth with the clouds. i think we'll see something similar to that. maryland's most powerful radar. we expect no new precipitation until we get into early thursday. weather from the texas area could bring us rain thursday, thu