komen. >> reporter: that is woman how did do you? >> t-shirts. our fire department t-shirt that we normally wear and in december we decided to make it pink. as you can see by the members behind me, we went through sales on our department and on line sales and we raised $10,000. >> reporter: you must have gotten a lot of sale from the community. >> yes, we did we're always doing something to benefit whether muscular dystrophy or susan g. komen. we work hard with the community on the benefits. >> reporter: will you turn around and model them for us? they came up with the shirts. you designed them yourself. i understand. >> >> one of our members did the design and with debbie's help we brought it to the executive board of the union and then the administration and have them print them up and the story goes from there. >> reporter: wonderful. we'll have more that have story coming up in the next half hour. representatives from susan g. komen will be here and presenting the check for $10,000. live

komen at 11:00. back to you. >>> more information about the susan g. komen race for the cure foundation, go to our website, abc2news.com/thinkpink. there you can find out how to donate and participate in the event and to do so much more. >>> among those in president obama's state of the union address last night was congresswoman gabrielle giffords. she announced that she will resign to focus on her rehab. >>> president obama will be on the road for three days. he will sell his agenda. each day he will focus on one of the main pillars that he laid out in the address. >>> parking authority is proposing raising the monthly rate from 200 to $210. and they're looking to raise hourly and daily park rates. >>> a meeting is this morning at jfk barracks in perryville. >>> and the foundation started by mario is now partnering with health officials to help prevent drug and alcohol abuse. the initiative will place the prevention program inside the reese school and promote alternatives to substance abuse. begins at 12:45. >>> we just learned that president obama ap

komen foundation this morning. and here to tell us more about it and how they raised the money, tim is here. tell us how you raised this money? >> we got some approval from the fire chief to change our uniforms for the month of october and we started getting orders from all over the country, florida, pennsylvania, ohio. getting the word out and everybody came out to support a good cause. this is the fruit of our labor. >> reporter: you have great models that turn on cue. these shirts you designed themselves. you printed them. >> we did them in july, over the summer. and people saw the design and liked it and it took off from there. >> reporter: and you said that you printed more than a thousand? >> yes. we did about a thousand of these shirts. the nurses in the hospitals started buying them and we did black, gray and navy blue and we did some sweatshirts and hats. everybody took off. >> reporter: what is interesting, you were getting orders from out of state, georgia and florida? >> ohio, pennsylvania, all over the

komen.oining us this morning is deb. you helped design and get the shirts up and running. jim designed them, right? unite -- but you're going do the talking for him. >> yes. he approached us and went to the union and said what do you think about this? and we went to chief ray and said we would like to wear them the move october. and the members paid for them themselves and the money was donate from the sale and that is how we got to the $10,000. >> reporter: not only the members, but the community too. >> right. the family and community, so everybody had a little bit to gym. >> reporter: a understand breast cancer has touched you personally, your grandmother and aunt? >> yes. >> reporter: for a lot of the members here it meant something special for them to get behind the cause? >> yes. and i think if you look around, that everybody has been touched in any way or another so my aunt is a 20 year survivor so we're pleased with that. >> reporter: you wore this as your uniform in the month of oct

support almost everything you'd do, and i will introduce the three of them together -- jane kim, leah komenn chu. [applause] mark farrell. [applause] scott wiener, member of the board of supervisors. [applause] eric mar, a member of the board of supervisors. david campos, a member of the board of supervisors. [applause] you have some other city officials who are here. you have, of course, the man who takes all of our money, the treasurer, jose camos. [applause] campos would like to be there one of these days. i am so focused on campos, he owes me one. [laughter] the public defender, the man who he looked to -- you look to it you got arrested and are broke. -- if you got arrested and are broke. [applause] and the city attorney dennis herrera. [applause] and the man who supplies most of jefferies client' client becauss -- because he insists on are arresting and prosecuting people. [applause] and then of course there are members of your school board who are here with what jerry brown is doing to them in sacramento on the budget side they certainly will be coming to your door quite often for as

komen foundation of maryland.s on uúfirstr ip &c% íñ=hp(uup&ly i ááctÑi saw this i the firefighters and telling him how much i admire the shirts. they described how some vast white t shirts. some have the blue t shirts and they were brainstorming on the next t shirt project. >> the firefighters were authorized to wear them has part of their uniform for the month of october. outstanding job. for more information, log on to our website abc2news.com/thinkpink. you can learn how to donate, participate and do much, much more. >>> all right. let's get into it a little bit, quiet at harbor place. 42, not bad. believe it or not, our coldest part of the year statistically comes through mid-january. we're now climbing out. over the coming weeks we'll seat 56 -- see the average high. take a look at the sunny skies we had over baltimore today early on. then the clouds kind of rolled in late in the afternoon. no rain with these, though. same deal in annapolis. state capital, a sunny start and sunny start in ellicott city. mar

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common -- komen. under the threat of not being able to do it again, that is another possibility. again, this is informational, and we will take any consideration back. i do want to thank rich and tom carter for doing a lot of research and footwork on this. we're looking forward to making this a really strong leadership role in our community. any additions or deletions, let us know. thank you. >> i want to also applaud all of you. this is something i am passionate about. one thought that occurred to me, how do we make it easy for people to comply? and if perhaps the department of the environment has compiled a list of alternatives and where they can be sourced, so that you do get event coordinator is coming forward to where they can go to get a more sustainable product. we may have the environmentally- preferred purchasing plans year, coming up with -- purchasing plans here, coming up with alternatives. >> an alternative analysis was part of the considerations. you cannot prohibit things if you do not have the alternatives. we can strengthen that. >> i think maybe perhaps attachin