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there was a shooting in southeast baltimore. officers found the victim just before 12:45 sunday afternoon. he is expected to recover. police have not released a motive. >> a body was found at the inner harbor on sunday morning. a passerby discovered the body around 9:30 near pacaratt street. three police officers are being hailed as heroes after pulling a man from a burning truck. the man most driving on saturday morning when he lost control and hit a light pole. we're told the truck ignited. the man was rescued before the truck went up in flames. >> lawmakers are not getting much of a debate. there are two major debates. we have more from washington from danielle leigh. >> the national rifle association remained defiant in an interview with david gregory. >> if it is crazy to call for putting police and armed security to protect our kids, then call me crazy. >> he dismissed calls for laws. >> i don't think that will make any difference. >> throughout the country, people are responding. some are buying weapons. ofi'm here to tak

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. >> reporter: and with that the the mericore has a new home in southeast baltimore in the former education building of the sacred heart. >> it will house those young men and women who want to devote their life to service. >> reporter: it is a full-time residential national program in which young adults from 18 to 24 years old serve 10 month terms. they address national disaster, the environment, conservation as well as urban and rural development. they get credit and vouchers toward paying down educational debt. >> i was looking for a chance to have adventure. >> i traveled through 21 states, serving in 12, assisted on four disaster calls from tornado, fire, flood and hurricane. >> this new center will house more than 240 volunteers. >> 460 members have given more than 90,000 hours of service since 2009 and that 90 thousands hours spent making baltimore better safer and stronger. >> reporter: the area is thrilled to have them tim williams wjz eyewitness news. >>> to find out about them, look for a link to the story at wjz.com, it's under our local news session. >>> the senate majority lead

in >> the search is on for the suspect after a shooting in southeast baltimore. officers arrived and found the victim in his 20's in the 6200 block of teams treat this afternoon. he was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover. police have not released and motive. police are working to identify the body of a person was found in the inner harbor. a passerby discover the body floating in the harbor around 9:30 a.m. this morning. it is not clear how the body ended up in the waters. the nra is fighting the push for new gun laws that followed the shooting in connecticut. the head of the powerful group is promoting the proposal to have more security in schools. >> this time, school safety is a big part of the argument. in his first interview after the connecticut shooting tragedy, nra chief wayne lapierre. >> the gun is the tool. the person is the criminal. >> they want more guns in the hands of good guys. >> is it crazy to put guns with police in schools to protect our children? then call me crazy. >> i oversaw the air federal marshals. it is a deterrent. >> l

the search continues for a suspect after a shooting in southeast baltimore. officers found the victim believed to be in his 20's just before 12:45 on sunday afternoon. he was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover. >> a body was found in the inner harbor on sunday morning. a passerby discovered the body around 9:30 near pratt street. it's unclear how the body arrived in the river. three officers are being hailed as heroes after pulling a man from a burning truck. a man lost control of his truck on saturday morning. officers were able to rescue the man. he was taken to shock trauma. >> lawmakers are not getting much of a break. two major debates are heating up in washington. we have more from washington. >> the national rifle association remained defiant in his interview with david gregory. >> if it is crazy to call for police and armed security to protect our crazy, then call me crazy. >> he dismissed calls for loss. >> i don't think that will make any difference. >> throughout the country, people are responding. some are buying weapons. others prot

at this home depot in southeast baltimore it's time to stock up for winter weather staples. >> people anticipating what's going to happen. we're getting a lot more of the customers coming in and picking up some shovels today. >> maryland state highway administration crews are trying to stay one step ahead of mother nature. they are also gearing up for another visit by mother nature. crews spent the day pretreating roads in the event of a wintry mix. in addition, state highway officials say they have up to 2400 trucks salted road ways state wide but do ask motorists to keep a few things in mind. >> if you are planning on traveling on saturday wait until after the storm begins. give our crews chance to get out on the road, salt and plow and make sure they're safe. >> baltimore city officials say they're also on stand by. >> we will be activating outdoor center at 2 a.m. saturday morning with about 35 to 40 pieces of equipment out. we are prepared, our staff is prepared and our equipment is ready to go. >> wbal tv 11 news. >> you can keep track of the storm as it advances on our i phone

when police arrived in the 1400 block in southeast baltimore they discovered a body of a 2-year-old boy. detectives soon determined a person of interest. >> when officers arrived they met with paramedics at the scene who pronounced the 2-year-old baby boy dead at the scene. authorities have determined this is a homicide. the child's mother was taken sba custody as a person of interest. she did sustain stab woundeds to her upper body. >> fitzgerald is charged with first and second-degree murder she too has a cut to her throat. >> detectives served the warrant on 32-year-old nicole fitzgerald charging her in the murder of her son. >> the child paris russell was found in the basement of the home. when detectives asked fitzgerald about what happened she replied she killed her baby and cut herself. she also said she has taken some pills. >> investigators are trying to determine a motive. fitzgerald has another court appearance on january 8. barry simms, wbal-tv 11 news. >> the sheriff's office is trying to figure out what caused a vehicle to veer you have a the road and down an enbankment th

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here in baltimore, some people celebrated the first night of hanukkah with a dance party in southeast baltimore. the creative alliance hosted a party with music, dancing and singing. music groups from baltimore and d.c. played traditional music. >> tonight is first night of hanukkah, the celebration that brings light into the darkness and we celebrate freedom and liberation movements and really having a really fun time. >> the traditional music is played at celebrations like weddings. >> i like the lighting. time now is 9:08, 50 degrees on tv hill. still ahead, we're in the 11 news kitchen for sunday brunch and we didn't have to go far to find today's special guest chef. >> we sit down with the author of this book to find out about gulf veterans. >> we'll talk about how rain could impact the game in d.c. >> now, your 11 insta-weather plus forecast with ava marie. >> the time is 9:11, there's a live look outdoors from skycam. notice all the rain drops showing up on the camera lens. currently 53 degrees downtown but only 50 degrees at b.w.i. marshall. the humidity at 93%, that's down from a 100%

at this home depot in southeast baltimore, it's time to stock up for winter weather staples. >> people anticipating what's going to happen tomorrow, so we're getting a lot more customers coming in picking up shovels today. >> maryland state highway administration crews are trying to stay one step ahead of mother nature. road crews are gearing up for another visit by mother nature. crews spent the day pretreating roads to keep them ice free in the event of a wintry mix. highway officials say they have up to 2100 trucks out. >> if you are planning on traveling saturday wait until after the storm begins. give our crews a chance to plow. >> and baltimore city officials say they're all on stand by. >> we will be activating our storm center saturday morning about 35 to 40 pieces of equipment out. we are prepared. our staff is prepared. our equipment is ready to go. >> you can keep track of the storm as it advances on our i phone. you can see interactive full screen and get the forecast on wbal tv.com. just click on weather. >>> a strike averted at least for now. the long shore man's union ag

] >>reporter: and with that, the americorps national civilian community corps has a home in southeast baltimoreormer educational building of the sacred heart school. >> the educational buildings and the convent and rectory will house those young men and women who will devote their life to service. >>reporter: americorps is a national full-time where those 18 to 21 years old serve a 10- month term national disasters, conservation, as well as urban and rural development. in exchange they get credit and vouchers toward paying down educational debt. >> i think it's important that every young man and woman has a chance to serve their country and i was looking forward to having some adventures. >> i traveled across 21 states, serving 12 serving on disaster calls from tornado, fire, flood and hurricane. >>reporter: this new center in dundalk will house more than 240 volunteers. >> 460 members have given more than 90,000 hours of service since 2009 and that's 90,000 hours spent making baltimore better, safer, stronger. >>reporter: the area is thrilled to have them. in dundalk, wjz eyewitness news. >> a

here in baltimore, some people celebrated the first night of hanukkah with a dance party in southeast baltimorested a party with music, dancing and singing. >> tonight is first night of hanukkah, the celebration that brings light into the darkness and we celebrate freedom and liberation movements and really having a really fun time. >> the traditional music is played at celebrations like weddings. >> time now is 6:08, 49 degrees at b.w.i. coming up, infant seats and baby recliners on the recall list this morning. >> and the lines drawn again as the ravens gear up to take down the skins. what fans have to say about the belt wave battle. >> first, a live picture outside. the insta-weather plus forecast after the break. >> blizzard warnings issued for parts of north dakota. temperatures began falling into the single digits last night as in bismarckalling and surrounding areas. the wind chill made it feel as low as seven degrees below zero. officials have issued a travel alert for the entire state. >> now, your 11 insta-weather plus forecast with meteorologist ava marie. >> good morning. we're star

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baltimore. >> ford is creating more than 2,000 jobs in southeast michigan. they announced they are investing more than 770 million dollars in a new equipment and production capacity. [audio not understandable] 12,000 hourly jobs investing more than 6 million in plants by 2012 1/5. >> we have words and catch phrases we can't stand. >> here are a few overused this year we can do without in 2013. see if yours is on the list. polls on time magazine list words that they think need to be banned. most hated words were yolo which is short for you only live one and gangnam style song and the dance. and the third top word was literally. meaning people. >> literally? >> people can't stand the word literally. we want to know what word you can't stand. post it on the facebook page abc2news.com/facebook. we want to know what you think. >> are you sure? >> look at that. our floor director look at the word he wants banned. megan. >> oh. >> wow. >> there's a chill in the room. >> one chill because of that and you will pay another thing we could be paying very soon if we don'

southeast continue bringing very warm air. we have a batch of showers from pennsylvania through the baltimore region that's stirring up the atmosphere. we'll see some periods of rain tonight, but overnight in the morning hours, we should start seeing a change as the winds begin to shift more out of the north and northwest and the west that will clear things out. expect to see a good deal of sunshine and drier conditions coming our way. big storms across mississippi and georgia. that's all off to the southeast of our region. you kind of see it developing there off to the east. some steadier rain offshore now, but not too much longer from now we'll start seeing some breaks. we do expect to see some sun tomorrow. it looks like a much drier day. this mild air, it won't be until the end of the week when we're really going to cool down. another storm will come through the area with a chance of more showers on thursday. then we'll cool down just for the weekend. breezy and sunshine will be back in the afternoon. the bay temperature around 47 degrees. overnight too night, still some rain, drizzle, fog, yes. eventually it will break out of t

baltimore. we will see rain showers off and on tonight. temperatures will drop off from the northwest to the southeast. when you wake up tomorrow, could be a few spots that have a little bit of ice and maybe a few snow hours -- snow showers. when gusts could get up to 40 mph. another storm is on the way. we will show you that in a few minutes. this big storm caused a bunch of flight delays. we will send it over to georgia let us at bwi -- over to georgia at bwi. >> the weather has made traveling difficult in and out of baltimore delays. delays and cancellations continue at this hour. for those lucky enough to get on a plan today, they tell me it was a scary right. >> it was one of those days to travel but mother nature had other ideas. >> we decided to spend christmas in las vegas. today the odds were not with us. >> this family's flight from las vegas to baltimore made it but their final leg to connecticut was like the more the victim hundred flights nationwide on wednesday -- canceled because of a massive winter storm. >> we are happy to be on the ground. it was kind of rough up there. we are sort of

southeast at 10. we have marine layer air in here. half-mile visibility in gaithersburg. quarter mile up in baltimore.ense fog advisory for howard county and points to the north. i just tweeted this map out. so follow me at topper's weather. good stuff. here's at radar. all the showers back in the mountains. in fact, i don't think we'll see the showers go into the metro area till about 9:00 or 10:00 tonight. we still have some drizzle and some fog for the evening commute. but the heavier showers are well to the west out toward cumberland. temps pretty mild. our average high 46. still 50 in bethesda. 49 rockville. 51 in great falls. 51 in respectston, vienna. still 50 in arlington. and still 50 in college park and bowie. 52 andrews and 52 down toward wall door. dense fog. use your low beams. keep yore distance. it will affect the evening commute tonight. it should burn off by midnight. the winds will scour the fog out of here. here's our futurecast. by 11:00 some yellows and oranges showing up around frederick. even a rumble of thunder not out of the question about 11:00 or midnight tonight. everything

southeast d.c., karen gray houston, fox 5 news. >>> the news edge on maryland now where an off-duty police officer was shot early this morning. the officer was in overly in baltimore county when he came upon a crowd of people in the street. it was 3:15 a.m. police say he stopped his car and asked the group to move so he could get through. that is when someone came out of the group shooting. the officer was shot twice. is he expected to survive. >>> tonight -- he is expected to survive. >>> tonight family and friends gather to remember a young man shot a year ago and pray for the suspect to be found. kevin victor wanted to be a marine and he was a standout athlete. now his brother darrius plays with kevin in mind while his family waits to hear something from police they say that have been silent more than nine months. >> he's my motivation. i do it for him. every touchdown is for him. every yard is for him. of grade is for him in the classroom -- every grade is for him in the classroom, too. >> we had high hopes to receive justice from the police department and the justice system and we have heard nothing. >> the suspects are two teenagers who may have followed kev

least .4 inches at the airport, impressive there. .2 at gibson island in southeast anne arundel county, .8 in northeast baltimorether. 3.3 in manchester, northern carroll county, and 3.3 in emetsburg. what you have to worry about this morning is a couple of slick spots on the roads from any of the snow that melted yesterday that could have refrozen to black ice. 21 mile-an-hour winds in annapolis, 19 in la plata. 19 mile-per-hour winds in ocean city, the strong winds coming in behind the storm system taking a toll on temperatures today. not only will temperatures feel colder but it will prevent us from warming up. 39 in college park, 34 in gargts park. the annapolis temperature of 54 looks suspect but it is milder as you get towards the water. the forecast across the state today only in the upper 30's to low 40's from central to southern maryland all the way to ocean city. the winds really prevent us from warming into the afternoon. 24 to 33, the temperature range in the mountains where there could be flurries. the same can be said for southern pennsylvania with 34 to start the day. the next potential winter sto

seeing winter push its way southeast and unlike last year we are going to have winter this year in the united states. you see example of that now. i may add in the big cities, baltimorephiladelphia, new york, this should change over to rain but once you get a little bit north of and west of the city, the heavy snow that cops in will change it sleet and freezing rain and it will be a royal mess through southern new england, back into the suburbs of philadelphia tomorrow morning, baltimore. further northwest, this just is an out and out snowstorm for most places from the midwest through pennsylvania, interior parts of pennsylvania through interior southern new england, a skiers delight but a travelers nightmare. kelly: exactly. we're watching video of people actually traveling on the roads. as you talked about, this was a well-publicized storm system coming through yet we saw so many travelers out there. this is a storm that has been deadly. three deaths so far. >> right. it was well-publicized. a lot of people thinking it was going to cut up into the great lakes. what happened is, the track, amazing watching what goes on in the weather community. you have u.s. generat