political reporter pat warren is with the governor and has more on his message to marylanders tonight. pat? >> reporter: moving marylanded for is the governor's message to marylanders. and he's making his third announcement here in waldorf. >> governor o'malley's visit to waldorf had more of a garden party. scom paired to a fanfare. >>> governor o'malley and first lady katie set the stage for what is expected to be a spirited gubernatorial campaign. beginning with two days across the state to make his presence known everywhere. >> we're all in this together. and so we're coming to our home bases, if you will, baltimore, where i had the pleasure and honor to serve the people of baltimore, prince george's, where lieutenant governor anthony brown lives, and represented in the legislature. and rockville, where i grew up as a boy. and we're going to be trying to get to as many parts in our state as possible. >> reporter: and it might help o'malley move forward in the polls, which shows a hotly contested race against former governor bob ehrlich. not that o'malley is paying attention to that

reporting from annapolis, i'm pat warren, now back to you on television hill. >> pat, thank you. a bill outlawing use of cell phones while driving passed both houses and is awaiting the governor's signature. >>> an absolutely beautiful start to the workweek today. looking live outside right now, it's still mild and spring like. but a change may be coming for your tuesday. bernadette woods is in the first warning weather center. >> reporter: we do have a change coming. right now though it's fantastic. take a look at warning doppler radar. nothing going on around us we're at 70 degrees right now. here's the change moving our way. the part of this storm right here, this moisture going to bring in the clouds overnight and the rain tomorrow. all of that is going to keep our temperatures down. a much cooler day tomorrow. but it is not going to last that long. we'll have the forecast coming up shortly. >>> in anne arundel county, a truck driver was crushed by a piece of granite. safety inspectors are now investigating the accident. >>> well, the price at the pump seems to rise with the

reporting from the state house, i'm pat warren. back to you on television hill. >> drivers will also face fine fist are using handheld mobile phones behind the wheel. >>> baltimore is helping to get the major funding. the city wasn't initially on the disaster. snow totaled will help pay school removal costs. they are expected to get even $7 million more to the back-to- back blizzards here. rain. it is much chillier. first, we're going to start with meteorologist better than det woods who is tracking all of that rain. >> we have the rain around. and it has kept down the temperatures. right now, around the region, we're seeing a couple of different areas of rain. and it's first day of spring. you can see heavier why rain around hagerstown and frederick. all of this is switching to the southeast. mountain areas will have more. and even more. we're seeing drizzle in between. more passes and this is a little more solid. that's picking up for cambridge. we have the rain here today. but it's going to be gone tomorrow. and we'll have the f

reporting live from fullerton, i'm pat warren. back to you on tv hill. >> kent holt is the only republican candidate to announce his candidacy so far. >>> the leading female voice in the civil rights movement success remembered tonight. dorothy height has died at the age of 98. mary joins us now with more on a lifetime of accomplishments. mary? >> well, denise. her death impacts so many people, including people walking in her footsteps in the council of negro women. >> reporter: on the campus of morgan state university, i walked with two young women, deeply affected by the passing of dorothy height. latoya paul and lakeisha baron head up morgan's section of the national council of women. an organization dorothy height ran for 40 years. >> i felt that she really wanted to be president because she wanted sisterhood to do service. and be united. >> reporter: lakeisha said she had the privilege of meeting dorothy height on two occasions. including when the civil rights pioneer invited them down. >> this woman is so phenomenal. this is

reporting from fullerton, i'm pat warren. back to you on television hill. >> thank you, pat. republican ken holder is the only gop candidate to announce his candidacy so far. >>> police say michael may and another man forced themselves into a home. police have not identified the other suspect. >>> a murder suspect avoids the death penalty by admitting his role in the killing of a north carolina college student. denise is in the newsroom to explain the plea deal. >> reporter: 3-year-old mario atwater pled guilt to kidnapping and several exchanges in court. in exchange, he will get life behind bars. atwater and another man, lawrence lovett, are accused in the murder of eve carson. she was found dead with several gunshot wounds in march of 2008. atwater still faces state murder charges. the district attorney says the federal plea deal will not affect the state case, where atwater faces the death penalty. >>> atwater is scheduled to be sentenced in september. >>> one of the teens charged in the bullying case of a 15-year- old girl who committed suicide is back in court to face mo

reporting from the state house in annapolis, i'm pat warren. back to you on television hill. >> the maryland insurance administration is opposed to raising the rates. >>> also today in annapolis, legislation moves forward to prosecute gang members. it looks to close loopholes. it resulted in one guilty plea and not one conviction by a jury in nearly three years. the new legislation moves on to the senate. >> a one of a kind project is quietly happening in secure, darkened rooms downtown. as mike schuh reports, priceless, illustrated man scripts, selected by henry walters, are now being ready to be reviewed by the world. >> before the printing press 500 or more years ago, every book needed to be written out, letter by letter by hand. >> every letter is a work of art. >> the finest of these are illuminated. meaning they have gold, silver and other decorations. >> show me your room. what is this? >> reporter: passing into the climate-controlled vault. >> this is the inner sanctum, the holy of holies. and to get into this room, you have to have a g

. >> pat warren is at the state house, she will have an update on the changes live tonight. >>> a gas main is struck in a busy residential area on putty hill avenue inure the 2010 of harford road. police quickly stopped traffic, while bce investigatessed the situation. no evacuations wereness. no one was hurt. >>> one suspect is in custody and another on the loose after a teen is stabbed in anne arundel county. 17-year-old demetrius manar stabbed an 18-year-old man on 17th and severence. he is charged with attempted first degree murder and weapons charges. if you have any information about in case you're asked to call metro crimestoppers 18667- lockup. >> a grand jury in georgia will decide whether charges should be laid against ben roethlisberger. >> reporter: a 20-year-old college sophomore said she was assaulted by role in the bar. edgar, has maintained all along that his client is innocent. it's the second time in a year that role has been accused of sexual misconduct. he also faces a lawsuit filed by a woman who says he raped her in a 2008 lake tahoe hotel and casino. another all

did you see that goldman sachs' problems are for you extending to warren buffett? pat, they're bringing them all in. >> uh-huh. >> i'm not saying warren buffett's in trouble. i'm saying everybody's going to get snarled. >> goldman sachs aren't the only ones to probably think up this outstanding idea here. >> no. the boys at merrill lynch and a couple other bank -- >> getting close to home. >> it is. i have to say, mika, we got a lot of e-mails yesterday about the tim geithner interview. >> i did, too. >> a fascinating -- >> i watched it again. >> we all did. and i didn't until i kept getting all these e-mails where they said he didn't answer the questions. and i think there was a question about whether he really knew what was contained inside the bill. andrea, does this suggest that maybe this is still a moving target? >> oh, it is. >> negotiations are still going on? tim geithner came on here and wasn't ready to commit on what this bill might be. >> i don't think he wanted to blow up talks between senator shelby, on the republican side, chris dodd and with the negotia

pat from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. caller: i think they should go to jail for what they did. i think they should be punished severely. they knew what they were doing. i love warren buffett but if berkshire -- i just read berkshire hathaway had to put away $8 billion in a safe place so this would stop, so we don't have to bail them out. we can't go on like this. the whole world has been affected. as you mentioned earlier, greece, i read about that, too. it is just a moral dutyimmoral, and i hope -- it is just immoral and i hope they write laws that make it a felony. these people don't have any lack of -- i don't know. they don't care. they lead and a different world. people who have billions -- for instance, richard -- paid 12.5% taxes if you years back when he was fighting with his divorce lawyer. little guys never pay that little in taxes. it is just stunning to me. what they are forgetting is we need a strong middle-class. and it is dying. host: the caller mentioned gree ce and that is the headline in many newspapers. financial fears grow in europe over great debt. here's a story about ford -- fourth positive quarter in a row. the finance division played a par