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thanks. president obama says he did not betray democrats by cutting a deal with republicans on extending tax cuts. the agreement would extend expiring bush era tax rates to all taxpayers for two years and extend jobless benefits and cut payroll tax. emily schmidt reports from washington. reporter: president obama says the tax deal debate is good but it s time to get things done. the american people are watching and they are expecting action on our parts. reporter: for the white house, action means persuasion. president obama working the phones, vice president biden on capitol hill trying to convince house democrats to make the compromise a done deal. democrats said while many voice support for the white house. there are also numerous members who stood up and had great deal of problems with the problem with the deal that was proposed. reporter: white house economic adviser larry summers said if democrats defeat the deal, there s a much larger risk of a double dip recession. i am not sure it will pass this current form i don t know. no one knows the answer to that. reporter: democrats are angry about a state tax cut and measures to extend bush era tax cuts to the highest earners in return for extending long-term unemployment benefits. there s things i think i would make the deal better and i will work on those. reporter: republican leaders say the deal is ready. we have reached a bipparton agreement. it s time democrats in congress reach a similar conclusion and enabled us to act for the good of the country. reporter: president obama told democratic supporters in conference call he put up the best tax cut fight he could but bottom line he said, the votes simply weren t there. emily schmidt,abc news washington. stephanie rawlings-blake released this statement saying the simple truth is the tax plan benefits work families by putting more money in their paychecks and extends urge ntly need unemployment benefits. time is 5:32.an arundel county executive john leopold wants more officeers to protect your kids at school. students have been roughed up at cork ran and bates middle school and that upset parents. 12 high schools have on-site county police officers. he says they will add two more resource officers, nine of the 19 middle schools currently have those officers. and the police officers will be ready to begin their tasks next year. today the town of bel air will be officially declared as one of the arts and entertainment districts. the core of the district is going through downtown. we are talking about main street from bel air high to rock hill manner. and if you are an artist, you can work in bel air and receive income tax credit. and developers can create spaces for artist and get a property tax break as well. tonight, barbara walters will sit down with a one-on-one with oprah winfrey. she talks about her career, her relationship with her best friend gail king as well. she is the mother i never had. she is the sister everybody would want. she is the friend that everybody deserves. i don t know a better person. i don t know a better person. so when those to me dumb rumors come up that yo are you. gay. uh-huh. what do you say? we willwell, i have said we are not gay enough times i am not lesbian. i am not even kind of lesbian. and the reason why it irritates me is because it means that somebody must think i am lying. that s number one. number two, why would you want to hide it? that is not the way i run my life. bar barbara walters special airs tonight at nine followed by barbara walters most fascinating people of 2010 and we will get a heavy dose of snooki. hundreds of baltimore city teachers may be a bit happy. the contract they signed that changes that they must make in the rewards when he had cadeing your children about educating you children. you want to save at market but maybe a scam away. it does more than saving cash. walk down the grocery store aisle we will show you and demonstrate it on the air for you as well. 5:35. for a check on the trains and buses, we will send it tout to the mta mark jones. hello, mark. reporter: good morning out there right now. you will find the camden penn and brunswick line operating on time. over on the bus system look for the numbers 5, 8, 20, 23, 36, 40, 48 and 91 to be diverted in the area of baltimore and light and the 19 and 35 buses continue to be diverted westbound at gillford and fayette. for the mta transit team, i am mark jones. 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( crashing ) man, that s good. man, that s good. velveeta and rotel. man, that s good. 21 minutes before six this morning. when you head to the grocery store today, you will look for ways to save. and your phone may be handy. there s a new app called checkpoints. and it is found the key to the busy commercial free lifestyles. checkpoint is an app and you use it while shopping at grocery store. they reward you for check out products by scanning the bar code. you get points when you scan and even if you don t buy the item. i want to get the best deals, but i probably don t have a ton of time to spend. the checkpoints application is free and available on most cellular phones that have app stores on them. charlie and i have iphones and we were curious because we want to save money. you down loaded it. did you figure it out. they offer a tutorial but if you go to the website and app store, this is what it will look like when it opens up to you. what it does is make you activate maximum you activate your location settings because what it is going to do is show you what points are available in various parts or in your general vicinity. 200 points at rite-aid and walgreens and for caffeine junkies, uh-huh. starbucks. two points available at starbucks. people may not know there s a walking path from wmar to that starbucks. what you like to call frequent flyers. so it shows you what points are available, but, one thing i have to tell you and warn you of is a tutorial on there. watch the tutorial and it has frequently asked questions, the answers are there. work with it and use it and you might save a bit. well, today is a good day to go grocery shopping because it s going to be chilly and lynette you know how it is. people stock up on toilet pape wert idea of snow. is that going to happen any time soon? no type of snow for today. i do have a mix coming in going into sunday. but i don t think you will need to stock up on anything. temperatures will be in the 40s and things will improve a little bit. but for right now, very cold. you need to bundle it up heading out and about this morning. temperature into bladenburg is 25. catonsville at 22. you can see the gust, 7, 6 8, 7, 13. the temperatures are in the teens for this morning. so you need the mittens and gloves and hats. double your socks up because it s going to be cold. so you will heart word layer up a lot as we go throughout today. hour by hour, 24 degrees as we head into nine and 36 by 4 p.m. and it s going to remain cold all day. let s head over to kim brown  with the traffic. good morning, kim. reporter: thanks. good morning. 95 southbound look really good between white marsh down towards the beltway and 895 split looking live here at 895. southbound and northbound no problems at o donnell street. look live right now at the maps, we have most incidents happening in baltimore city including an accident reported at garrison boulevard and ridgewood avenue. 95 southbound approaching caton avenue. police activity blocks the right lane and shoulder and we have some street closures in effect near the block until further notice. utility issue east maple at telegraph closed and annapolis utility issue this. st. margaret closed right now. stay with us, there s more of good morning, maryland coming back after this quick break. no. they know that she always forgets where she puts her magic wand . but when she finds it, she makes magic happen. 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[ male announcer ] now the best protection also comes in new prints and colors. wl col back welcome back a baltimore man behind bars after attempting to blow up a military recruiting center. the 21-year-old reportedly parked an suv loaded with what he believed to be explosive outside the recruitment center. bombs were fake and federal agents took him into custody. sherrie johnson joins us on more on the local man locked up. good morning. reporter: good morning. we have thousands of military troops serving overseas defending our country. and this morning, antonio martinez is behind bars accused of trying to blow up an armed forces recruiting center in our backyard in catonsville. it happened yesterday morning as soon as martinez attempted to detonate what he thought was a car bomb in front of the recruiting center. agents quickly moved in. during a brief appearance in federal court, the 21-year-old martinez told the judge his name is muhammad hussein. court documents describe him as convert to islam. he was the subject of a three-month sting operation. federal agents say he plotted to wage a jihad war and attack recruiting centers in maryland, one after another. the car bomb was harmless. it was mockup that posed no threat to the public. but still, it s unsettling news for those who live near martinez in northwest baltimore. we never had no problem with him. we never thought there would be anything like this to happen in a neighborhood at all. reporter: the fbi says martinez tried to recruit at least three people in his plot. two turned him down and one turned him in. coming up at six, we will hear what the department of homeland security says. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. and here s what the white house said about the arrest this arrest underscores the necessity of remaining vigilant against terrorism. the president thanks the f b and the rest of the law enforcement professional that continue to keep us safe. that quote from nick shah spear shapiro in the white house press office. we want to know what you think? do you feel a terrorist attack could happen in a place other than large city. we will talk about this this morning. and you are. brer adds this s always a possibility of it happening anywhere. some muslims say march teens arrest has presumptions about what islam is all about. the imam work to build a mosque in new york city says it s necessary for american muslims to stand against this type of behavior. we are stretched. but we need to do more and we cannot do this alone. we need to organize better. we need to partner better. and this has to be a joint effort between muslims and members of traditions. we have been following the story online. for more on that, head to our website, abc2news.com, to see complete coverage and we have posted the full criminal complaint. abc2news.com head there and take a look. it s 5:48. pennsylvania man spends 35 years in prison for killing his former girl from he had a baby daughter a judge sentenced nicholas mckee yesterday. a jury convicted him in october stemming from the deaths of 5 week old bella. it was earlier this year prosecutors argued that he had shaken the infant to death. baltimore city teach verse a new contract this morning. and some are probably smiling. it changes how teachers are compensated. instead of tenure raises are based on student performance. official say it will strengthent ability to attract and retain excellent teachers. union and school administrators are excited about what they are calling a move forward. and as they celebrated with photos last night, education experts say this type of contract is considered a landmark initiative. now, maryland s most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weatherate. good morning, everyone. check out the numbers. we are getting colder. the normal should be in the 20s. 29 degrees for that high coming in coming in around 48. but we are okay. we are not close to that record set in 1876. four degrees, single digit. br-r. 76, 1966. and check out sunrise, 7:14 a.m. and sunset at 4:44 p.m. our highs yesterday, yes, they were well below average. we are supposed to be at 48 and came in at 36. but then you compare it to pittsburgh, 27 degrees. out altuna 26. so not so bad once you compare whether it s very relative. that s what i love about the weather as well. 36 in to new york and down into norfolk. checking out the current wind situation, it s not too bad. this time yesterday, the winds, your sustained winds were higher. five-mile-an-hour wind into baltimore. dc and coming in at 6 and win chester at a 5. 9 in hagerstown. frederick around 5. the wind chill is the way it feels, 15 into york. more of the same into baltimore and feels like 19 in easton. dover feels like 15. and yes, it feels like 2 in oakland. but remember yesterday, oakland felt below. so we are doing better. we are improving and temperatures will show that. satellite and radar not picking up on a who. mostly clear and seeing plenty of sunshine. as we go throughout the day, so get out and enjoy it. but if you do, tough bendel up. high pressure is the culprit of the sunshine but we have the northwesterly flow still in effect. so the breezes will be on the chilly side. future forecast, not picking up on a lot a few clouds moving in here ahead of a system that s going to work its way in here through saturday night and sunday bringing us a rain snow mix. but by today, no type of rain no type of snow. just lots of sunshine. and 36 degrees cold but less windy. and then by tonight, that temperature will come in at 22 degrees partly cloudy and still bitterly cold and by tomorrow, that temperature will be at 40 degrees. all right. let s get a check of the traffic with kim brown. good morning, kim. reporter: thanks. good morning. we are keeping ion on a very serious accident northbound on the bw parkway right as you approach the beltway. this is a reported to involve four vehicles and they have all the lanes closed. traffic is being directed to go by on the right shoulder. expect delays towards that area. looking live at the beltway at 695 at providence road, the inner and outer loops are moving nicely. everything is at speed. in baltimore city, an accident at garrison and ridgewood. earlier police activity southbound 95 at caton avenue has been cleared. there s more news, weather and traffic when good morning, maryland comes back after this. hey! wait up! 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(announcer) some use hydrogenated oil. reddi wip uses real dairy cream. nothing s more real than reddi wip. and welcome back on this thursday morning a hotly debated immigration reform bill cleared a major hurdle. the house approved the dream act last night. but not with some heated moments before the vote as you can imagine. we have come here, yes, to support the rule of law, but to change the law when it is unfair. today change it for the generation of young men and women. we must stand up for them. the legislation is aimed at young illegal immigrants and basically it would grant them from a path to citizenship if attend college orer is in the military but have to meet other requirements including passing criminal background checks and demonstrating good moral character. the measure moves to the senate. five minutes before six this morning. leading lady sal mahayek add illegal immigrant to her list of credits sheecht admitted after moving to l.a. in 1991 her visa expire and the status in the u.s. was illegal for a short time before going back to mexico to renew that status. in tennessee, tensions are running high over gay rights. stiewt students a belmont university protested the departure of the soccer coach calling on the school mack amends after players say she was let go after telling them she was expecting a child with a same sex partner a crowd including some of the former players, held a three-hour protesters. university leaders are not saying why the coach left last month. we see small snowstorms all the. i am and then ones like the one last winter. one thing to get into the christmas spirit burks too much spirit too quick. the snowstorm cleared up. the upstate new york area is facing something nothing short of massive. the man given a second chance in the nfl roon he he turned down one team in a career he would now choose to pursue instead. and i ve seen a big chicken across the yard. oh, my gosh. i am afraid to take the dog out. did anybody report it missing? the animal revolution is real. the surprise guest that took a stroll around a neighborhood and the panic that it caused. now, good morning, maryland. a baltimore man in federal custody after trying to blow up a catonville military recruitment center. what feds new he didn t know. and it s a