she tried, she talks to stephen hall and they developed a relationship behind allianz, but this whole time hall wanted to accomplish his mission and nothing seemed to be going right. at the same time, the of the major character in this book comes into play who is a nazi ss officer, part of the gestapo august shiffer who relentlessly hunts every allied agent in the area including hall as well as these-- he has rounded up scores of them. as this is all going on all's entire network is being in culturated and he is losing people left and right and he is just a hairsbreadth away from being captured. what happens is a massive snowstorm hits the area and hall decides the time has come to change the course of this mission. he is not going to sit back. he is going to try to make a change. anti-realizes that he can't get to the brenner pass but there's a small railroad substation that is about 50 miles away that is in this heavily occupied german area called cortines. if he is able to get there and destroy it, the substation had taken denser that was made of mercury. it was very high tech for

stephens has the story. reporter: as she enters the banquet hall, city council president is also taking steps towards becoming baltimore's next mayor. >> i pledge as mayor dixon pledges to make it a smooth transition. i met with many agency heads and we're going to get through this. >>reporter: it was her first public appearance since wednesday's announcement that she would take over as mayor next month, when sheila dixon steps down as part of a plea deal and her corruption case. the senator, who received the lifetime achievement award, proudly pledged full support to raulings blake and the people of baltimore on behalf of the entire congressional delegation. >> we will not miss a meet. we will not miss a deadline or an opportunity to bring federal resources to the city of baltimore and to work with the new mayor. >>reporter: also standing beside her, was the city police commissioner who was another one of the honorees. >> it's not like she's learning some new language or i'm learning new things about her. i look forward to, you know, a very open and frank working relationship. i don't anticipate any change f