this is fios. this is big. >>> 9:22. i think tuesday afternoon is the best time to go shopping any week. jamie was trying to inform me there's a bumper crop of beats and rhubarb. is that why you want to chase everyone to the store? >> that's right. >> that's what it's all about. >>> we're talking weather here, 23 degrees was our low in baltimore this morning. 17 pittsburgh. places that actually had snow, snow on the ground and snow still falling, they are still in the teens. we've recovered a little bit to 26 degrees. again, as we watch the typical standard breakdown with the winds off the great lakes, banking up against the western slopes of the appalachians and that's where most of the snow is flying, a couple flurries may float their way through, a little disturbance in the atmosphere could enhance the chance of a snow flurry or snow shower this afternoon but it's really about the gusty winds that picked up across the area, and have already charged the atmosphere with extreme chill. we take you down the eastern seaboa

this is fios. this is big. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news at noon in hd. >> good afternoon. i am sarah caldwell. the big story this afternoon, the frigid weather. we are still seeing some- freezing temperatures. let's go to sandra shaw at the ins to wonder some other -- the insta-weather center. >> a hike is still going to be only 38 degrees prepare for the next two days, we are going to be below freezing for the actual temperature. the winds have died down a little bit, but they are still very crusty. -- gusty. 16 in westminster, 15 in parkton. generally about 20 over on the eastern shore. for the rest of the afternoon, we will see more clouds intermittently. we will call it mostly cloudy. hi only up to about 31. don't be surprised if we see flurries as well. more on your mild warmups, or very brief warm-up, and the snow expected on friday coming up. >> a water main

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this is fios. this is big. >>> >>> the census bureau hit the road to promote its once a decade census count would stops at the super bowl and mardi gras parade the $300 million campaign will allow residents to fill up the question form which will then be mailed to households coming up in march. >>> one last look at the weather on best birthday monday >> will be okay. we'll be inside eating cake. we'll have some clouds through the afternoon and gusty breezes and it will be in the 30's but will feel in the 20's. we may even have a passing snow shower. brees in cold tomorrow and the cold system moving in thursday as well. >>> continuing coverage uns emblidge -- one night i said to my husband, come on, we're going to a steakhouse yes, i wear dentures super poligrip seals the denture to your gum and it prevents food from penetrating it was very very comfortable fitting (charlie dullea) super poligrip helps keep out food particles. just a few dabs create a seal that helps keep food particles from getting

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this is fios. this is big.president today, i let him down. i am the president's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism. and i told him that i will do better and we will do better as a team. >> chris: that was white house advisor john brennan, apologizing over the failure to connect the dots that resulted in the christmas day bomb plot. and it's time now for our sunday regulars. brit hume, fox news senior political analyst. contributors mara liasson of national public radio. bill kristol of the "weekly standard." and juan williams also from national public radio. so i want to show you all all the different ways that president obama has referred to umar farouk abdulmutallab over the last two weeks. let's put them up on the screen. in his first statement in hawaii on december 28, it was isolated extremist. a day later it was known extremi extremist. back in washington, the president called him a suspected terrorist. and finally, it became known terrorist. brit, what do you make of the evolution and t

this is fios. this is big. >>> the energy saving led traffic lights are causing safety problems in cold weather. they don't get hot enough to actually melt the snow. >> so they wind up covered making it hard for the drivers to see the color of the signal and ceating major traffic trouble. >> reporter: red means stop. green means go but what if the light is white? >> you don't know if it's go or stop. >> reporter: in an effort to cut energy costs communities across america are turning to leds to illuminate their traffic signals. >> there's a cost savings. the city saves approximately 75% electrical consumption at an intersection that has led lights. >> reporter: 90% of the signals the state of wisconsin controls are now led for an annual savings of $750,000 off their energy bill. the leds also provide a brighter green, yellow and red but there's a problem. they don't get hot enough to meltnow. so in a big blizzard? >> it restricts the visibility for the driver. for instance, if the red happens to be

this is fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. >>> brace yourself against the big chill. >> it is a long winter. >> everyonetruggles to deal with the arctic blast, but is a warm-up on the way? >> was to pay $2 to park for an hour? >> parking is getting more expensive. one county put the brakes on permanent speed cameras, but will it get a green light from drivers? captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> an arctic blast has people in the washington region bundling up, and it is going to get colder. steve rudin has a look at how low the mercury will plunge. >> under mostly clear skies, temperatures will fall into the teens across most of the mid- atlantic. the belfort furniture weather center, 28 degrees at reagan national, 23 hagerstown, 18 degrees elkins. the bigger story is the wind chill factors, falling into the single digits. we will fall into the teens with the wind out of the board at 10- 15. another cold day ahead, p

this is fios.e they saw amy adams and remember her from "enchanted" 40 years ago, "all my children" may its debut played by the likes of susan lucci and kelly ripa. and our own cameron mathis. 12 years. >> 12 years. i now know what it's going to be. >> it's looking good. >> it's a big facade, robin, it. but i am indeed joining from you "all my children's" brand-new home here in los angeles. over the holidays, we just packed up and moved the show across the country in l.a. after 40 years of being in new york. now, while the location of the set has changed, the show itself definitely has not. still all about family, about timely social issues. and lucky for me, it's still about having a lot of fun. >> reporter: for four decades "all my children" has been a fixture of daytime division capturing the imagination of local soap fans with weddings, funerals and memorable love stories. it's been over 10,000 episodes, for my character alone, i have been married four times, engaged eight, shot four times. die

this is fios. >>> all right, we are dealing with really cold temperatures, but check it out. burlington, vermont, report breaking snow. more than 33 inches falling there saturday and sunday. the previous record for burlington was back from 1969 with close to 30 inches over a three-day period. look at that. >> wow. >> that's just going nowhere snow. >> that's what we thought we had here a couple of weeks ago. >> it all went away though. >> that rain, we thought -- tony would you like to see -- >> there's snow in the parking lottings and what have you. i was saying to tucker that was the snowen the saturday before christmas. it's amazing some of it is still here. but it's so cold. snow? vermont, like the snow we got that day. two days in a row, just crazy. >> if you're over the snow, you're tired of it. maybe snow later in the week. the question, the answer to that question emains vague. we will get you some information. before we get to all of that, it's time for the my first 5 photo of the day. oh.

this is fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. >> look at history. cultures of addiction to spending, power, and approval have ruined empires, and now they threaten the entire state. >> we knew was coming, we have known this for years. sacramento would not reinforce it. >> gov. david paterson of new york, gov. arnold schwarzenegger of california. tillman, we feel your pain unemployment, the latest figures at -- gentleman, we feel your pain. and a plymouth, the latest figures at 10%. >> this is an amendment in california that the state will not spend more on prisons than it does on higher education, which it does now. the jewel of public education in the united states come from k-12 to by the university college system, is now a basket case. it is a tragedy. we have a political ethic in this country that has operated for the past 25 years, and that is tax cut, tax cut, tax cut, i will never ask you to be a citizen and pick up the burden. >> in the case of

this is fios. t>Ñó >>> if you are like millions of americans, your new year's resolution to lose weight. one magazine is offering up a little i inspiration to help you get started. they are make the senior editor galina espinoza available to talk with us. good morning, galina, how are you? >> good morning, happy new year. >> in the magazine we're talking about real people losing real weight, not talking about surgery. >> these people decided to transform their bodies by transforming their lives meaning they had to completely overhaul the way they ate and the way they exercised. >> did they tell you how they did it. that is the big question is how? >> for me the biggest part of the story is how they each started. what got them there was different, maybe a doctor told them that they needed to lose weight or their health was going to be at risk or maybe they were a parent and felt that they could not keep up with their kids. once they got to that point where they had to turn things around, they starte

this is fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. >>> we had another cold january day outside today. it wasn't too bad because the sunshine was out in full force, but we only got to a high of 33 degrees. you look at that normal temperature, 41 degrees, we haven't seen those 40s in a couple of days. the low was 21 degrees. the record 75 degrees. right now, though, mostly-clear skies. 26 degrees. the winds are still out of the northwest at seven miles an hour. the humidity is at 44 percent. switching gears a little bit. we're getting a dry sweep. that will allow temperatures to drop down back in to the teens for the outlying areas. 29 degrees currently in baltimore. 28 in d.c. 12 in oakland. still a pretty strong northwesterly wind out there that. makes it feel that much colder right out of the northwest at seven miles an hour in baltimore. 14 in d.c. look at that 0 in oakland. winds will slowly subside overnight tonight and through the daytime for sunday. s

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