our winner paul carter, jr. from ellicott city. get us your name at abc2news.com. we're back with the weekend forecast. and turkey day weather is coming up. >>> thanksgiving is six day as way, but christmas is 36 day as way, so time to bring in the trees. that's what happened this morning at the annual tree to decorate the front of city hall was brought in and put into place. this year's tree is donated by pinehurst nursery in glen arm. the 30 foot norway spruce was put into place by the crane you just saw. >>> the holiday season is just about here and around the area. decorations are going up all over the place. everyone's in a festive mood, sort of. downtown at the inner harbor, a major event is called it ace a waterfront life. it kicks off tonight and in towson, santa's workshop is just about open. we have a preview of all of the holiday stuff. >> reporter: it's that time of year again. you can smell it in the air. the holidays are here. so if you are looking for something to get knew the festive mood, how about coming down to it's a waterfront life, a series of

paul also slipped 1%. mitt romney and newt gingrich seem to have benefited from all of the scandals. >>> it has been a long fight for a bryan carter, a californian soldier who lost his life. >> reporter: just one of many to his father bryan carter. >> i miss his humor, his one liners, laughing and joking, brave. great father, great husband. >> i'm thinking, anything can go chaotically wrong he would say okay let's go handle it. and we would say let's make it happen then. nothing really shook him. >> reporter: back in 2009 just after his wife tiana found out she was pregnant. bryan carter was diagnosed with nonhopkins lymphoma. >> it was very devastating. but you know we kept busy with our two kids and the goal was and there really wasn't any doubt in our mind that he was going to get better. >> reporter: despite a bone marrow transplant. and still, that unanimous donor gave them a lot. >> whether he gave bryan an extra hour, an extra month it was that much longer that myself and my kids had with him. >> reporter: this morning tiana ran in southern california to raise awareness on marrow donation. >> bryan fought with everything th

don't mean interrupt but brick carter just unfriended her friend june from tampa because she posted ten pictures of her cat dressed up as snooki. >> jimmy: well, thank you, paule unfriended. will you be my friend? >> i just unfriended you at the beginning of the show. >> just for saying that? i w >> i was getting into the spirit. >> i tried unfollowing people on twitter, i got hate mail. >> jimmy: this is not about twitter. this is about facebook. that's serious stuff. >> that's worse. >> jimmy: you think it is? >> they have access to your personal stuff on facebook. twitter, they don't have access to anything. now people know what my cat looks like and they can stalk me. they know where my house is. >> jimmy: you put pictures of your cat there, right? i mean, isn't that true? >> it's a cute cat. >> jimmy: well, this movie, of course, you are a doctor in the movie but you do not deliver the terrifying half vampire baby. >> no. well, like most doctors, you know, they say they're going to be there for the birth and when the birth comes, they are on the ninth hole playing golf and there's, you know, somebody else is there. >> jimmy: i guess you've shot all the m

carter, abc 7. >>> police still have no suspects and no motive in last night's deadly double shooting in foresthill. it happened in the parking lot of the penn forest shopping center on paul palwalters lane. the gunman opened fire hitting a man and woman. 27-year-old anthony washington died and the woman is recovering. >>> a 17-year-old boy is still in the hospital 30 hours after he was shot in the head during the georgetown halloween celebration. last night officers went door- to-door on m street looking for more informations. investigators are trying to figure out if there's enough evidence to link the crime to a man already in custody. that is 24-year-old andre colholman. he was charged with carrying a pistol without a license. >>> this could be a turning point in lululemon trial. >> prosecution if it is expected to rest its case against brittany norwood. this is one day after the jury heard her police interrogation tapes. and the victim's mother took the stand. jummy olabanji is live in rockville details. good morning. >> good morning. jayna murray 'sajayna murray's mother took the stand yesterday. she only really got up there a few moments and was able to identify he

paul with "u.s. news & world report" yesterday said something about how jimmy carter was regarded as the worst president century. look at his number. 51% and you have president obama in the weekly job approval index substantially lower than that. and, of course, the question is can you get re-elected? well, harry truman got re-elected and what was his strategy? he was running against a do nothing congress which is exactly the same tactic as being employed by this white house. >> those darn people down there at the other end of pennsylvania avenue aren't letting me do what i want. >> they decided to do that as opposed to what bill clinton did which was to move to the center to gain ever more popularity. >> he had 51% approval at that time. bush 43 had 52% approval at this period. >> let's take a look at the vote decideers. those are the pure independents. so when you look at how they fall for president obama right now, they have dropped from january earlier this year, of course, 40% of them supported him. and now it's down to 30% and that's a precipitous drop because as we all know, independents pretty m