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People. According to the National Retail federation, 10 of all gifts will be returned. Experts predict today will be the top five shopping days. Last year shoppers spent more than 7 b amazon is offering a tv marked down 40 . Best buy cutting the price of a camera to 129. 99. And a cashmere sweater from bloomingdales now 89. 99. This shopping season has been the worst since 2008. It was dammenned dammenned by hurricane sandy, the new town shooting and the fiscal cliff. Sales increased only 7 10th...

martin omalley, senator cardin and barbara mikulski. roosevelt leftwich is live at the corner of charles and pratt. have things eased up. >> reporter: the streets that were closed are back open. as you can see, this is pratt street right at charles. its very, very heavy traffic. most of it is rush hour. there were so many ways people had to get around that it cause lad lot of slow and heavy traffic. take a look at some of the pictures we shot earlier. these is lombard street. what happ...

kent county and cecil county. there is clearing to the west. carroll county clearing out. howard county clearing out. more rain surging out of the south from the western shore going eastward. our visibilities are low, a little midwest mixing in with the rain. drive with care once you cross the route 50 bridge. temperatures around 50. were headed into the 40s. cloudy wet conditions. well talk about how fast the sunshine comes back and where the temperatures headed coming up. dr. conra...

so lets call on meteorologist wyatt everhart. mr.fix it. he is outside. wyatt? >> reporter: guys, no question about it. it is coming down lightly here now, i dont know how well you can see that in the light. but its a wet night after a wet day across maryland. were going to see this again tomorrow. take a look. flood concerns will continue not just tonight but through the day tomorrow. we have have widespread flood concerns especially on the northern and eastern shore right now. well k...

>> reporter: the partial shutdown of the faa is on the 12thday. that means projects like this half finished tower and this one are postponed because of the funding fight. already, 4000 employees are furloughed and 7000 out of work. airport safety inspectors are working, but theyre not paid government has lost $200 million because airlines arent able to collect taxes on ticket sales. that will increase the longer this goes on. >> dont let a billion dollars at a time when were scrambling...

for the largest slots community near the mall. as jeff haeger reports the developer of the billion dollar project laid out some tentative plans to get them up and running as soon as possible. >> reporter: marylands first slots casino is already up and running in cecil county and now the cordish company has received the go-ahead from voters it will set its sites on building the largest caon seen oh in anne arundel county. the project opening would happen in 2012 but a possibility will b...

>> reporter: senator elect rand paul told good morning america despite his anger during the campaign hes willing to work with the republican leadership. >> im not afraid to point out hypocrisy. >> we really need to throw it out and replace it with the ideas we talked about during the healthcare debate. >> reporter: also the influence of sarah palin possible tea party candidate in 2012. she endorsed more than 60 candidates this election cycle 69% were victorious. >> thats a earthquake. ...

honk time ago. >> reporter: some people cant understand why maryland has had so many problems getting slots. >> i dont know too much about maryland. the other states went through it and it worked out to benefit the states in the end and the racetrack. >> reporter: racing continues here at laurel park. the maryland jockey club says their next movies to evaluate their options and present it to the maryland racing commission at the end of the month. at laurel park im don harrison for abc2...

congratulations to our guys. its not easy to make the playoffs. the ravens advance to the playoffs after beating the raiders, how the fans feel this morning. its not your typical forecast when you can watch cloudy with a chance of meat balls right in your own living room. good morning. its monday, january 24th, im patrice harris. happy new year to you. we have a school closing to tell you about this morning. cecil ton elementary school is cecil county is closed this morning because...

check the well being of their boss. >> police discover constantine frank, facedown in what appeared to be a robbery. >> he was bound with zip ties and duct tape. and there was -- i think the stress of the trauma and incident. he had a stroke. >> reporter: police say frank was unable to see. he was transported here to johns hopkins hospital where he was on life support. frank died here this week. >> if it does become a homicide investigation, its also commercial robbery. >> reporter: fr...