hartford executive david craig said state mandates like requiring full day preschool fueled the hiring of more teachers in the first place. >> limit the ability to expand the number of teacher those have which is also a lot of the thing that the state hassin sifted, they are the one that has changed the class size, from 25 to 23 for elementary school. that means have you to have more teachers. >> reporter: the governor has proposed capping income tax deductions and rolling back, exemptions for those with household incups above 150,000. >> a family of four earning 150,000 would pay $191 more. >> reporter: one out of five would pay the higher taxes. they make no mention of a gas tax hike. at the state house,abc 2news. >> if approved the proposed income tax hike would generate about $300 million and about a third would go to the county. >>> the governor says the budget lawmakers go to work -- what do you think are the most important issue? a poll out and they did this last week and they only talked to registered voterrers and the economy and jobs were the biggest concerns, almost 49% file

hartford executive david craig claims as much construction has the governor is seeking statewide this year it didn't require any new taxes to get it done. >> i don't really necessarily depend on the state to get things done for us. if we ask -- we put our hand out just like everybody else but if they don't help us we will still fix that problem. >> redistricting helped eliminate 4500 empty seats balancing enrollment county wide. we have continuing great news for us. our public schools have once again been ranked first in the nation by education week. it's the 4th year of role mail. it's based on several factors but some of the top marks for early education programs and preparing students for college and jobs. >>> the teachers are spending another flight out there in the cold tonight because they still have not met the goal, trying to collect ten thousand pounds of food for people in need. they only are 2,000 pounds so far. what? they have about an 8,000 more to go. if you have anything to spare donations can be dropped off in the office or the staff members who are camping out under t

. >> while three elementary schools will need renovations david craig said the county shouldn't need to build any schools for five years. >>> the development disabilities administration has come under fire. they help support harry landers who have disabilities. last year it was found that many were put on a waiting list while over $37 million of state funds went unused. today in annapolis a state committee was briefed on the progress by frank kirkland. >> redoing the whole fiscal process, working with the providers and the resource coordinators to make sure people get into services as quickly as possible. we have funding available from the alcohol tax that we are tracking getting people on the services. we have placed 138 in the service this is year with the funding already. >> budget managers have been replaced and some new proceed yous are underway. consultants will be flight to see if other changes need to be made. >>> the city council president jack young wants the mayor to forget about the grande prix. he claims that there are other things that need to be addressed and that thin

. >> david craig is the hartford county executive. he says it cannot figure why the union is stalling. >> i did not have their information. they do not work for the hartford county government. their work for the board of education. i cannot actually give them a check. >> the head of the union says that is not we is hearing -- what he is hearing from teachers. >> the majority of members are in support othis. they do not want to weaken the bargaining laws and more. >> both sides believe there is a chance they could work out differences for the end of march when the bonus money goes back into the budget. to go right now part for county teachers are the lowest paid in the state and has been more than three years since they've got a pay raise. >> wow. >> still ahead, a positive sign regarding the economy. >> the latest auto sales report is out, and the news is good. how it is helping the u.s. on the street -- automotive industry recover from 2009. >> it is called >> live, local, late breaking, you are watching wbal-tv 11 news in hd. bijan

harford and cecil county executives will today launch a route during an event at the david r craig park in havre de grace. it takes effect this morning starting at 11. time for a check of the forecast one more time. let's say hello, to justin. >>> all right. good morning. 6:54. take an umbrella or rain jacket with you. not expecting anything heavy today. more of a nuisance or ambience event. a sense of winter has come back. 39 ocean city and they started at 30. there's the 40s and rain to the south in virginia. a little bit of snow in the high country near snowshoe. and west virginia. we are right on the northern fringe of the system. computer models have been trying to nudge up towards the north and i think it will slice through central maryland. north of baltimore likely to stay dry and around baltimore, down south toward anne arundel county the chances increase to a get some of the precipitation and increases across the lower eastern shore. as we watch this we check out future trend which doesn't highlight the northern fringe and frozen precip i think we will get a little mix of rain

. >> craig snyder with the david horowitz freedom center. this very low bar for ethical conduct in congress is troubling. not only only do they do it, but it's sanctioned. >> yeah. >> what concerns me, and my question to you is, with such a low bar for ethical behavior, the first time or the second time a staffer or a congressman or senator does this, it really opens the door to any other kind of behavior. and i'm wondering behind the curtain how much additional approved graft, if you will, of this kind goes on? because one thing is that the patriot class, the new citizen that looks at this says we need a higher standard for our public officials. and whether it's term limits or other kinds of things, how much is behind the curtain? >> i think it's a good question. um, i think that there is a huge problem. i mean, the way that the, that the government has been established and set up and i think a lot of it but not all of it is based on constitutional principles is that congress is basically supposed to govern itself and set it own -- well, th

craig rackham. and you have the two delegates from santorum are, carrie and patricia. david is the alternate. the ron paul delegate is nicholas colbert -- colbat, i am sorry. those are the names of like to put before our caucus right now. all those in favor say aye. we have just selected our delegates to the county convention. it may seem disjointed, but we got that job accomplished. so thank you very much. all of you that are remaining here, if you want to come over here, we do have -- we do not want to totally forget the -- the ones that are the delegates, come up here and talk to our secretary. they need to get all of the information from those people who are delegates and alternates. that is our man right there. our secretary. the other thing we want is we have a list here for jr. delegates. there is no cost for jr. delegates. you can have as many as you want. mark, do you have the jr. delegate form? anybody else would like -- if you would like to sign her up, come on up and sign her up as a junior delegate. there it is, right there. just sign your name right there for a junior delegate.