11 News Reporter daniel lee is a new town with the latest. Code afternoon, the people in newtown are taking the first step toward moving forward. It is the start of the killing process that is sure to be long road. As students appear did not attend sandy hook elementary return to their classrooms, others are still struggling to cope. There were mortified. They were crying. There were upset. Gene rosen learn about the shooting from students who escaped to his lawn after they watched their teacher protecting them. They said we cannot go back to the school. We cannot go back to the school because eric teacher is gone her friends and family will say goodbye during a wake. It is terrible about Rebecca Harriman attended a different Elementary School that i dont ignore ever ready to send your child back to school after Something Like this happens. As much as we can get him back to normal, we have to. At sandy hook, no one is back to normal yesterday Elementary School is closed indefinitely. Workers at a nearby school are preparing to temporarily welcome the sandy hook students but they will be without their principal who died a hero trying to stop the gunmen. Her daughter six comfort in a letter her mother went through her. Remember this in your darkest times youre never alone your mom. A nearby towns as they could have a school ready for sandy hook students by tomorrow, there has been no determination about when they will return to class. Officials in Howard County are taking steps to reinforce safety plans at the schools in the wake of the events in connecticut. The county executive announced hord county will form a joint task force to address School Safety concerns. The group will examine School Security and determine what can be improved. Authorities are also trying to figure out which to help students and parents identify children who may need help or who could become a threat most of these followed reports in the School Shootings from across the country over the last several years, they have some common traits. One of them is that people say, he or she was acting a little odd. It is getting the public comfortable with reporting that. The first Task Force Meeting is set for later this week. Officials are stepping up Police Presence at schools. A congressman joins the Brady Campaign to discuss gun violence in America Great the rhode island democrat held a News Conference on capitol hill this morning with the president of the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence. Some possible good news to report in the nations so called fiscal cliff. Negotiations in washington, president obama and john boehner met for the third time yesterday and they say a deal is shaping up. They say Speaker John Boehner is assessing tax increases on the rich and president obama is agreeing to more spending cuts. Speaker john boehner will brief House Republicans on the proposal later today. Temperatures have bounced back from this morning. We started off in the 50s and some colder air pushed in and now you can see we have bounced back to the upper 50s. 58 degrees at b w i marshall. The wind is a little bit strong. It is gusting up to 20 Miles Per Hour. These wind gusts are helping increase those temperatures. The highs today should range from 5863 degrees. We are partly cloudy skies and it may be coupled sprinkles in the western part of the state. That is not a major concern around baltimore and we will let details coming back. New details about the shooting outside Baltimore County bar. County police say a 26yearold was intoxicated when i left the pub in taos and early sunday morning. Investigators say he drove away after refusing an offer by two women to call him a taxi. A number of bystanders said it took a violent turn. There is a visible there was a physical and verbal argument and he stood up and pulled a weapon out of his waistband and fired several shots at one person was struck and had but refused treatment at the scene. He was a Business Owner and legally owns the gun but does not have a permit to carry. He faces several charges including attempted firstdegree murder. Some tense moments monday at National Academy Foundation Prep in east baltimore after police said they arrested a woman on the campus. The woman was trying to deliver a birthday cake and balloon to a relative who was a student at the school but she did not get proper clearance to enter the building. When school staff member approached her, an altercation broke out and the visitor pulled a knife. The woman and a staff member both suffered hand injuries in the incident. A good deed goes tragically wrong in joppa des moines. A 54yearold was a retired Police Officer and he came to the aid of a friend with a flat tire. He was working on the car about 15 feet from the road when a driver lost control and hit him. It was one of those crashes where investigators are not sure really what happened. How did that car actually hit this it disabled vehicle that was part of a safe distance. Police tell us and mdta employee was also hit. Investigators believe wet roads and fog may have contributed to the crash. Coming up next, an nbc reporter and his crew were kidnapped. They have since been released and we will have the latest on the abduction of richard and all and flames consume a comm the nbc chief Foreign Correspondent richard angle and his crew are safe after being held captive in afghanistan. They crossed into turkey from syria this morning and they are in good health nbc news said he and his production crew members were afraid not harmed. He said he believed the gunmen who kidnapped him and his crew in syria or Shiite Militia groups loyal to the syrian government. The crew was freed after a firefight between their captors and a rebel group. Nearly two dozen members of a Northern Illinois University Fraternity are facing charges in the death of a 19yearold freshman. Arrest warrants have been issued for 22 members of the fraternity. Five of the warrants are for hazing. The other 17th Fraternity Brothers are facing charges for misdemeanor charges. The 19yearold was found unresponsive at the frat house in november. The corners of his blood alcohol level was more than four times the legal limit which contributed to a cardiac arrhythmia. Firefighters in new jersey had their hands full with a commercial building fire this morning. It was a sevenalarm fire at a building and the city of elizabeth. It houses an auto repair business. No word on what sparked the flames and there are no reports of injuries. Still to come a new device could be the key to treating Macular Degeneration and we will have details coming up. Just a few sprinkles are showing up on the radar right now but nothing major to worry about. The winds are picking up and the temperatures are as well. We will have details we come back. This is a live look outdoors. 61 degrees downtown. [ knocking ] oh, no, i got to go. Oh, can you make that to go . These days, nobody has time to get sick. But minuteclinic makes it easy to get well. Our Nurse Practitioners can diagnose and write prescriptions for everything from strep throat to sinus infections with no appointment necessary, so you can feel better in no time. You guys want to go to the park . Yeah yeah minuteclinic, the Medical Clinic in cvs pharmacy. Accepts United Healthcare benefit plans. Find a clinic near you at minuteclinic. Com. Nearly 200 local Law Enforcement officers and a better trained to keep your identity said. During a seminar yesterday, the officers learned about skimmers would allow thieves to steal your creditcard number. The seminar will opted officials in the latest identities dealing devices including phone apps. It is important officers began to look out for these advancements. If you fly southwest airlines, you want to be sure to catch your flight. The airline starting next year, customers who do not cancel a flight will pay a fee. It allows customers right now we dont use their tickets to apply the price toward a new one. Southwest has not given an exact date for the change or how much of the fee will be. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in people over the age of 55. There has been virtually no chance of seeing what is directly in front of them again but a new device, a telescope the gets implanted offers new hope. You can get this down here, i would have a magnifying glass about here with that the paper here. Joanne zorn has a critical part of her vision back thanks to a brand new twinkle in her eye. The light is reflected off a tiny telescope implanted in her left eye. That has brought back the central vision she lost to macular director a generation. Dr. Stephen when explains the area that allows for central vision to watch television or read a book or drive a car is called the macula. When that macula is damaged by an agerelated process, there is essentially a hole in peoples vision. This is what most of us see and this is what does with Macular Degeneration see. With the blind spot on both sides, in both eyes, i have to get up close to recognize somebodys face. The telescope magnifies central vision tremendously. While there is still a blind spot, patients see much more of what is directly in front of them. It takes months of rehabilitation to learn to use each by differently. Nontelescope crises things in the periphery and the telescope by sees things centrally. Zorn has gotten the hang of it. She wants broker kneecap because she could not see the stairs but now has a spring in her step. I can walk along and do this. It is thanks to that new twinkle in her eye. I am a new kid. Dr. Lane said patients with this device can drive but it is with people for macular urged degeneration in both guys who have not had previous cataract surgery. The device costs 1,500 not including the cost of surgery and rehabilitation. The doctor says it is covered by medicare. Speed bombs could be helpful are doctors succumb to diagnosing appendicitis. Anytime doctors are necessarily remove a healthy appendix, missing an acute case can be dangerous. Researchers have found that when doctors ask patients if their pain worsened when they were going over speed bumps, there was a strong link. 97 of those who said speed bumps her painful or later diagnosed with acute appendicitis. Cambridge University Researchers say each day overindulge in bad habits can take 30 minutes of your life. They calculated half an hour of life can be lost from smoking two cigarettes, being 11 pounds overweight, having to desperate drinks, watching two hours of tv, or eating a burger. Researchers say each day of consuming one alcoholic drink, eating plenty of fluids embezzles and exercising and add two hours to your life. Now, your instaweather plus forecast. With ava marie. I guess it just evens out with good habits and bad habits. Things are even out as well on the weather. We see this guys car out, the temperatures warmed up and not so bad for a december day. There are just a couple sprinkle showing up on the river south of hagerstown toward frederick and some light snow flurries showing up in the western part of garrett county. It is very minimal. Most of the area is dry especially over baltimore and the Eastern Shore and it will stay that way into the afternoon it would just be one drop of rain. That is good news for the afternoon commute. The winds are a little bumpy. You might have to grit your steering well as receive wind gusts up to 26 Miles Per Hour at the airport and near 30 Miles Per Hour in gaithersburg and hagerstown. It is very windy out there and the winds are coming from the west down the mountains and this helps to warm the air. It goes down the mountain in the air compressors and that causes it to warm. That is why you are seeing warm conditions east of the mountains but everywhere west is much colder, only 32 degrees in oakton. The temperatures rise going toward the east where we have the upper 50s. Theres also some colder air pushing in against the mountain and that will arrive our way tonight into tomorrow. Expected temperatures to drop down tonight. After reaching the low 60s this afternoon, we are talking about laws and the 30s. Some of the northwest suburbs could drop into the upper 20s. We will have clearing skies tonight and that aids in the cooling process. The first batch of cold air will make its way into the east. Another batch of cold air will be on its way. The cold front comes in late thursday into friday and that will cause big challenges and to the weekend. High pressure tomorrow and thursday into friday, the storm comes in with cold air behind it and gusty winds. Saturday might have a couple of snow flurries off from the great lakes. High pressure should be building in but it looks like great trouble weather around baltimore for christmas eve. Temperatures are in the 50s for the next couple of days and a drop to the 40s on friday behind the cold front and a major drop this weekend, the first offical weekend of the winter season. Carrie engel from Valley View Farms is here to answer your question. This is of the buddhist pine and it is a plant that is a slow grower. With the bonsai, you get to play with it to put it back to make different shapes. I think it is a perfect christmas gift. For the smaller area in your house. Thank you, how can i keep my Christmas Tree and greens fresh for the holiday. Water, make sure you get water in a Christmas Tree stand every day. Take to reach out and soak in water before you put it up, it will do better. They dry out so fast. Soak it every couple of days and will hold up better. Theres also a product you can spray ought that will stop some of the water lost through the needles. But if it is on your front door . What is the latest i can plant a blank far some flowering bulbs like tulips . But late january would probably be ok. I was a little bit late this past year. Any ideas for lastminute gifts for the gardener . An herb garden is great. Most people like to have a good pair of pruning shears and garden gloves. We hear from damage from the sun so a nice hat would be nice. Get card your favorites. Gift card your favorite plants. I always hear people say put sugar in the tree . They say it helps as long as economics a pretty good. You might want to give it warm waters of a dissolved pretty good. What will sugar do . It is like floralife it replaces some of the sugar that is lost when the tree grows. I have never tried artificial sugar. Thank you. Up next, your maryland lottery pick three and pick 4 numbers and another check of the instaweather plus forecast. This is a look at how wall street is performing at this hour. Now youre maryland lottery pick 3 and pick 4 numbers good afternoon, your pick 3 numbers are 2 9 as printed on the ball and1 that makes your pick 3 number 291. Ravbns cash fantasy enter your drawings by 9 00 a. M. Every thursday bob diamond is ready to rock and roll ander pick 4 numbers are 8 2 1 4. The pick 4 game, 8214. One last look at the weather. Cold is on the way but today is pretty warm. Were talking highs pushing into the upper 50slow 60s but it is a little windy and maybe some spriggs to our west baltimore, we will cool to the low 50s with more sunshine and a more powerful storm friday. Thank you for joining us for a 11 news at noon. Be sure to watch tonight at 5 00
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