Welcome to 11 news sunday morning. Were gonna talk about the weather. It is sunny out there now. It is chilly. It is. We have less wind, but were still facing chilly temperatures. The sunshine is going to help things out into the afternoon. We currently have 33. Kew point at 19. Winds are south around seven Miles Per Hour. Much less wind compared to the gusts 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour. Were only going to see winds around five to ten Miles Per Hour. The sun out in full force. Just a couple clouds coming in later for the ravens game. We with eel have details on that coming up in a few minutes. The cold weather kept some people indoors while the windy conditions brought ou bge crews. 1,000 customers lost power yesterday. Most of the reported outages were in pg county. Its the season of giving. But for nick grimes, he wishes Mother Nature didnt give too much on this day. Its cold out here. Really windy. The piercing winds and bone chilling temps kept bar hoppers along the trendy northwest hot spot of camden shivering and wearing layers upon layers of clothing. Im wearing hat, gloves. I am wearing three layers. While many would try their best to get through the cold and windy day, bge crews are out in full force since the Early Morning hours anticipating every power outage throughout the area. By bulking up on crews and getting ahead of the wind, Power Outages were kept at a minimum. Its nice that we have our guys out there ready. Thats whats helping us get all our customers back on as quickly as we can. Gl the chilly weather may have made the day uncomfortable for some, but many agree, cold temperatures during the holiday season, well, they tend to go hand in hand. But to me, its not christmas. Its not winter without the cold. And bge adds you should never assume they know there is a power outage. If you lose it, give them a call 8777782222, wbal tv 11 news. Winter storms with high winds toppled trees in upstate new york friday. One homeowner got a handful. Trees often fall during heavy storms, we know that, but when a huge tree falls across the entire roof of the house, it is a shocker. When the elderly homeowners son came over, he realized the saw was no match for the tree. They had to bring in a crane an other heavy duty equipment to clean things up. Meantime yesterday, new york also saw its first major snowstorm of the year. Digging out in syracuse this morning where plows are out in full force up to 3 inches of snow fell in central new york. The 6 inches reported in some areas farther north. West at the Holiday Valley ski resort near buffalo, skiing entuz yafts were out in full force. The resort has gotten two inches of snow in the last 24 hours and a foot in the last two days. It looks like ski resort operators will get what they wanted for christmas, as more snow is in the forecast in the buffalo region and on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day. Snow is causing some snags for travellers in northern california. Interstate 80 is back open today. But it had to be shut down yesterday because of dangerous near whiteout conditions. Weather and heavy holiday traffic caused many programs on the roads so many drivers spun off the road and tow Truck Drivers couldnt keep up. Cars were detoured off the highway and through residential areas, creating a crowded mess and frustrating travellers. We had a pretty good cell come in and stay right here. Probably put about 24 inches of snow in a very quick amount of time. We pulled over. We saw the sign saying the road was closed. We thought they were kidding but they werent. Snow will continue to fall this weekend and heavy rain and gusty winds are forecasted for the sacramento valley. Police involved shooting in west baltimore has left one man dead. It happened early this morning at a shell gas station on north bend road. The man approached the officer. The officers asked hip several times to drop the knife. When he refused the officer shot him. He was take ton the hospital where he was pronounced dead. The officer was not hurt. Three officers are being hailed heroes after pulling a man from a burning car. Officials tell us the man was driving on north point road and bethlehem boulevard around 2 20 saturday morning when he lost control of his truck into a light pole. When officers arrived on the scene, the car was on fire but they were able to rescue the man. The driver was flown to shock trauma. Theres no word on his condition this morning or about what caused the accident. Yesterday, nearly 150 area children were treated to christmas a few days early. Deborah weiner has the story. It was an awfully cold day to wait outside for a party, but the promise of a free childrens christmas warmed up the spirits of children in christmas bay. Merry christmas Merry Christmas santas arrival was as it always is the big moment and each child who came to the party got to beat him. Each child received the gifts donated by the curtis bay Athletic Club. For 43 years the Athletic Club has thrown this party and one of its members has been there every time. Kind of breaks me out. This is the only christmas some of them see. It is a special day for me. My daughter is 2 years old. Gets to know what christmas is really about this time. Wow. A new barbie best day of the year. It is. Its better than christmas. They enjoy it. Parents are thankful for it. Makes you feel good. One child told us what he wanted did not come in a box. Perhaps understanding a deeper meaning of the holiday, even at his young age. Family and friends for christmas. Thats all i really want. Deborah weiner, wbal tv 11 news. Still ahead this morning, one of our own on air talents gonna cook a little bit for us. Well find out who it is and what theyre making up in the 11 news kitchen. Thats for the holiday brunch. Head bands are in for celebrities Mike Michelle williams. How about emerald earrings . Would you love those . Love them. Theyd look good on me. I would like to see those green earrings on rob. Looking at the radar picture, things are very quiet across maryland. Things could get a little interesting for chr good morning. Starting you off with a live look outdoors. It is 9 11. 33 degrees. Look at the sun shining right on the water. Bright blue skies out across the water today. The sun is up. The winds have died down. Looking for good travel conditions across the midatlantic right now. Not so great as you head into upstate new york. The winds are very light in nature. Especially compared to yesterday. Were seeing a southwesterly wind, and south to southwest as we go across the Baltimore Metro area as well. The winds right now reaching anywhere from about five Miles Per Hour up to about 11 at Dover Air Force base. Hopefully you didnt see too much damage in your neighborhood. We did get a few reports of power lines down because of the wind. Heres the forecast across the state today. Partly sunny in the mountains, 34 for their High Temperatures. 37 around baltimore with sunshine. That sun extends down to the coast with ocean city at a high of 49 today. Great day for the ravens as well, as long as you dress warm heading to m and t bank stadium. Temperatures should be around 43. They will be dropping into the upper 30s throughout the game so have your purple scarf, your purple gloves, anything you can do to cheer on the ravens later today. We do have to watch as the storm comes in for Christmas Eve. Watch it progress into monday. Notice the wintry mix that starts to develop around baltimore. Its not going to be a pure snow. Our chances of a White Christmas are pretty slim. But its still showing that there could be some sort of snow flake activity throughout the day tomorrow. As far as any accumulation goes, very minimal amounts possible in carroll and frederick counties. Anything thats going to accumulate will most likely be in the mountains. They already got snow from what happened this past weekend. Heres a look at the forecast. 42 for a high. 46 Christmas Day with sunny skies. Another storm comes wednesday into thursday. That could also bring a wintry mix, possibly some accumulating snow into thursday morning. Well keep an eye on. Still ahead, peter rancho is sitting down with me for this mornings q and a. Add a personal touch to your Holiday Gifts with our simple gift wrapping ideas. First heres a look at some events going on around town. Just two days left for christmas. Hopefully you have the presents picked out for your friends and family. Here to make sure the presentation looks great as whats inside is our lifestyle gina pifer. Good morning. How you doing . Man, look at all this. Its amazing. Its a lot of fun making it. Lot of people wait until last minute. Im guilty of that as well. They dont want to stand in line, get more paper. Ill show you how you can use what you have in your house. I want to show you one of the tricks to making it look like it came from a high end store. Take the box or whatever shape you have and crease the edges cap go like this with these two fingers. See how finished it looks . Makes such a difference instead it even if you didnt wrap it perfectly, if you crease it, it looks pretty. People say, oh, of course. This is the canvas for the rest of your gift wrapping. Now, let me show you this. I made my own wrapping paper right here. Wow. This i made. Ill show you some pieces. You know how sometimes you buy something and its wrapped in like a piece of paper. I decided to make my own. I used newspaper. If youre reading the sunday paper, you can have wrapping paper. This one has a car ad. You can even find something thats more to the person youre wrapping for. Let me show you how to do it. Take your wrapping paper. Dont use a paper towel. Take your piece of paper. Small piece. Wrap it all the way around. Then skrufrj. Like that . Yeah. Then you take some paint. Take some paint. You put it in like a paper plate. You paint it. I use metallic. This is like a dollar. Use a foam brush. When you paint it, the on thing that paints are the ridges. Then you start unwrapping it. I dont want you to get messy. Ill spill it all over. This is what it ends up looking like. Isnt it beautiful . I just went out and got some branchs, right . I jut painted them silver. As you can see, this is what they end upped looking like. You can do a more natural look for someone. Different one for this. Over here i reused tissue paper. With tissue paper it gets worn from the tush show in the bag. Skrut crumble it out. It looks deliberate rather than worn stuff on it. This is what i use, pieces of wrapping paper. You have button joy. I dont know what shirt it went to. Thread it through some this is the jar. I made snow globes. This is fun to do. This i love. I made little apple pies out of cookie cutters. You can use the pie crust. I made the filling. Then cook them for 20 minutes. This right here, if you want to gifb someone a get it thats food. I made my own rather than buying them. You wrap some ribbon around. Right here, this is, you have pumpkin rolls or paper towel rolls. I made pillow boxes. Take one. Just cut it in. You can jut do that. Then wrap pieces of the ribbon around it. Make sure you tape the ends otherwise theyll fall out. 30 seconds. Really big gift. You can wrap a box. Here i used brown paper bags to just wrap it. I used cinnamon because i love pit. Smells pretty. Picture gift, which i love. You can print out a picture of a person youre giving it to. I always forget who im giving the gift to. This is great. For more information, check the website. You want to make sure and do that. This is neat. Really is. Its amazing what you can make and do and how great it looks. Stay with us. Coming up next john carry and your sunday. Its getting close to christmas. Ideas for the weather. Ideas from somebody who likes to spend time in their garden. Were talking about last minute gifts on your sunday gardner is coming up. Lets ring those chimes. Good morning. Welcome in to sunday gardener. Christmas is fast approaching. Were a day away. For those truly last minute gift ideas, we have some that relate to the garden or plants in your house. Yeah. This is what are you leaning on . This is a minigreen house. You can put your plants in here. This isnt going to save you like your gardening outside. You can cheat and get stuff out earlier. Use it to get your seeds started. Neat thing to have. Absolutely. I have some tools here. I talked about these before. I have a little arthritis in my hands. Instead of a straight handle that comes out, i can push down on this. Really enjoy it. Little garden scoop and scissors. Every Single Person that works here gets a pair of these. Use it to snip off any bad leaves. Lot of this. Just good garden gloefbs. I go through selfpair a year. Im sure im not alone there. It keeps rose thorns from getting in your hands. If you have people with arthritis, some of these pruners are great. Feel that handle. This has a really nice handle on it so that your hand continues to move. Try that. This part rolls around. It moves with your finger. This gifbs you extra on the cutting blade. It s a lot easier on your hand. When youre out there pruning. This time when youre doing greens or whatever, its great to use. For you weather guys. Okay. Thats a grometer, whatever its called. It talks about humidity and air temperature which are very good when they combine. Also whether its outside. If you want to measure rain, highs and lows, things like that. Its very important. We have a rain gauge for that. This is one of the more important tools that a gardener can have. Especially if you have new plants going in. You know you need an inch of water a week. You can check it. We talked about bird feeders before and gardening with squirrels and whatnot. This is a different one. I really like this. This has two different sizes. One for your seed and the other for your regular micked bird seed. This is great for finches. They can all be together. Dual. These things are just these are bird baths. Isnt that beautiful. This could freeze in the wintertime. We have things for that, some deicers and stuff. In the summer, especially a low spot in the garden. Thats the center point t vocal point. Things like bird houses are good. Grow lights. Lot of your plants are starting to stress a little bit. This is great. Audit to a timer. And for a little whimsy. Hes a little smoker, incense burner. I picked a Little Farmer for the urban farmers in your life. The little incense goes in. Comes off. The incense goes in there. I see. Then its got smoke coming out. Thats kind of fun. We had a couple garden themed one of those. This is a fun thing. Garden tools are always appreciated, garden books. This is great. My knees love this. You can sit while youre gardening or reverse it and kneel. I have a hard time getting up. Helps me push right on up. Great. Get one of these things. Especially when you have a lot of weeding to do im not a big heavy mull cher. Things like st. Francis. It will look good over there. They can be indoor outdoor. Primarily indoor. I dont know if you can hear this sound behind us. These are a great idea. If you can spin to your right. Wind chimes. All different sizes. You can get high tones or get the deep deep tones. So its just another thing. Theres just so much going on in the garden. Right. Last minute gifts. Were out of time. Thanks for joining us this morning. Merry christmas. See you next week. If you have a gardening questioning, send it to sunday gardener. All go on our website. Sound like the announcers i hear all the time when i was a kid. Speed announcers. Time is 9 29. 40 degrees on tv hill. Welcome back to 11 news sunday morning. Thanks for being with us. Take a look outside with ava. Temperatures are on the chilly side. But at least we have much less wind than yesterday. And the sun is out in full force. Overall, it is going to be a mrez and sunday. 33 right now. The dew point low at 19 degrees. Humidity at 56 . Winds south, seven Miles Per Hour. Just a few clouds today. Lot of sunshine and lighter winds. Winds from the southwest five to ten Miles Per Hour. High temperatures ranging from 45 to 50. Details are coming up in the seven day forecast. Time now for our sunday morning q and a. Good morning. Thanks for coming in. Great to be here. Merry christmas. Happy new year. Same to you. Nice red tie. Thank you. You announced youre not going to run for governor. Youre going to stick with the job you have. What a great decision. I have the best job in maryland. Im independently elected. People love my independent brand. They like the idea that im fiscally moderate. The governor is obviously a big deal in maryland, but i have got a great job. Perfect role for me. Im delighted to be running for reelection, as long as the voters can put up with me. Well see what happens. Same sex couples and filing taxes this year. Theres some things they need to keep in mind. This is an important issue. The federal government prohibits same sex couples from filing as married couples. And so obviously, with the result of the referendum, january 1st, same sex couples are legal. I am guaranteeing to same sex married couples in maryland when they file their taxes in 2014, theyre gonna be able to file just like every other married couple. Whether its federal or state . State taxes. The federal government will still prohibit them under their legislation to they are not going to be able to file like other married couples, but in maryland, for state taxes, were going to guarantee that we make the statutory change. We have to have a law change, or a regulatory change. But its only the fair thing to do. These folks going through this whole referendum exercise. Its now legal. They should have every right that other married couples have. Ironically, going to pay slightly higher taxes because of the marriage penalties. But its very important to people. I supported question six. This is a big deal for them, for everyone. And were going to help folks. Weve got two more days in shopping maryland. Youre a big proponent of shop local. Are you seeing that happening . Yes. Im encouraging everyone to do their last minute shopping in local stores in maryland. Good for the economy. Get off the internet, shop locally. If you walk around the main streets in mared, you know there are a lot of stores. The recession is still affecting a lot of businesses. This will be helpful. You have some concern about the death tax. Talk about that. Welsh heres the problem in maryland. For the last six years we raised every tax imaginable. Income tax, sales tax, alcohol tax. Its an endless series of fees and tax increases. That hurts the economy because it takes money out of peoples pockets. Jobs are what people need. Im suggesting in the next session the ledge slates chur give maryland taxpayers a break. Just keep it as is. Lets get the private sector to hire people again. Then we can move forward. On the gas tax, which everyones talking about, first pay back the billion dollars to locals that have been raided from the trust fund for their highway user fees. Once you pay that back to the general fund, you can talk about it. Lets talk about the fiscal cliff. Fiscal cliff is just a night mare because it creates all this uncertainty. People are making decisions at the end of the year with their accounts and this and that trying to avoid what the fiscal cliff might bring. Its a big mess. It affects maryland because were not joined at the hip. Were joined at the knee, hip, back, shoulder. With the federal government. If they cant resolve that in a timely fashion, were going to see a big impact negatively on the economy. Gambling in maryland. Not your thing. When you look at the record thats coming in, what do you think at this juncture about it . Its were going down an alley that has no good ending to it. Were taking money out of consumers pockets that should be spent in small businesses. And because were a consumer driven economy, were not going to have the type of employment that we need in order for our people back at work. Driving up here through baltimore, seeing the boarded up homes on norfolk avenue, the thing that struck me is that we need to have jobs. And when you take money out from gambling and taxes, peoples pockets, you remove the momentum for creating private sector jobs. Were out of time but i want to ask you, what are you going to do in this next year . We mentioned gas taxes to help generate and change things here in maryland. Just want to bring us back to the center. Common sense fiscal moderation is what the state needs and if we do that, well see a big job. We have a very Strong Economy at the state. Right now its paralyzed. Were almost dead last in the country in private sector Job Development and private sector wage growth. Thats a problem. That will be my focus during the rest of the year. All right. Thank you. Great seeing you. Happy holidays. Dont go away, well be right good morning. Theres a beautiful shot of sky cam looking on the water. Skies are shining. Temperatures are just a little chilly but theyre crisp toe start off the day. 33. What an improvement from yesterday as we had very strong winds across the area. Fortunately it is dry for anyone doing last minute shopping. Also if youre trying to travel to your holiday destination. We have dry conditions across maryland down the east coast. We just watched a little rain coming in from the deep south. Also lake effect snow in upstate new york. Thats causing problems in and out of syracuse. Also worried about snow in the Rocky Mountains and rain along the west coast. A large chunk of the country is seeing dry weather on this very busy day. Lets switch over to temperatures across the state. 30s in parkton, 30 westminster. As you look into western maryland its in the mid to upper 20s right now. The lower Eastern Shore of maryland in the mid 30s. Looking at the temperatures across the region. Little chilly. It should be easing up. Lighter winds make such a difference in the forecast. Compared to the gusts near 50 Miles Per Hour yesterday. Were seeing wind anywheres from five to ten miles an hour right now. We dont really have concerns of damage. No more concerns of Power Outages. Overall, pleasant conditions as we wrap up this weekend. 37 for the High Temperature around baltimore today. Mountains will be much colder mainly in the 30s with partly sunny skies. Even the mountains will have much wilder winds. If you plan to go to the ravens game, kickoff temperature at 43 degrees. We drop down into the 30s throughout the rest of the game. Make sure you wear the purple scarfs, hats and gloves. Anything you can do to stay warm and happy cheering on the ravens. This is whats going to be coming our way. A storm system building throughout the day monday. It interacts with some cold air. Not very likely were going to see much snow, but maybe a few snow flakes around baltimore. This is going to be a rain snow mix very light in nature. As far as accumulations go, it wouldnt be more than an inch in the mountains. Even Carroll County could see minimal amounts. Baltimore county will see much more snow. 46 for the high. We have another storm wednesday into thursday that could bring another wintry mix. Well have to keep an eye on everyone heading back from the holidays. Were here with how to get some celebrity styles for less. We love it when you come in. This is a day people do last minute shopping. Last minute shopping or plan for new years. Anybody can wear it. Its only 15. We have a fun, sparkley necklace. This is very new years. Kind of looks like that ball that comes down. This is 33. Comes with matching ball dropping earrings. We also have one thats purple. Earring and necklace as well. Thats a good deal. Look at these. I know. Hows this for new years. Got to have a bag like this. We have a picture of rebecca rojmin. This is a designer thats from britain. She designs these kind of bags. Hers are like in excess of 300. These are only 29. I like your version. Then the ears. If you dont like we have lots of other options if you dont want this. Angelina jolie. Angelina jolie wore these. Our version is almost exactly like those. We sell a lot of these earrings. They are only 19. That photo of hers is very well known. Now we have ashante. I love this picture of her. Got a very new outfit on. This is called glimmer. This is 33 as well. This is kind of sparkley to have this on your crist. You dont need to wear one on each wrist. Some people do . Its fun, right . More sparkle the better. Rings. Cocktail rings are a must. You have to have one. These are 19. We have a picture of Sophia Vergara wearing one. Lots to choose from. This is jumbled. 19. Yeah. Theyre pretty much 19. Like i said, if you want a reason to sparkle, why not . Right . We have a deal for people. 20 off today. Actually all week. The weekshqhqhqhqhqhqhqhqhqhqhq welcome back. Time for holiday brunch. Joining us this morning is a special guest, one of our reporters here at wbal. You brought your son rex here. How old is he . Rex is how old are you . 4. Hes 4 years old. Great. Youre going to help your mom make a special treat for the holidays. What is this called . Chicken kre sent squares. This is a little secret we got from a friend of ours, lauren conner. We make it all the time. You could probably make it by yourself, couldnt you, by now . Maybe. Its very kid friendly. It is. Where are we going to start. We started with a container of kre sent rolls. I already popped it. Thats the hardest part. Thats scary. They come in triangle shapes like this. Rex job is to put two tie triangles together. You want a bigger shape from them. Make sure the seam is closed. So while vehicles doing that im going to take some cooked chicken which i had left over from the other night. We cooked a seven pound chicken, we only ate half of it. Its a great use for a leftover. No one in my house will eat them except me. Like these, not enough to eat again but enough to stir in. Could you add other vegetables . I have experimented with everything. We made this last night and added barbecue sauce. If the chickens seasoned you dont have to worry about that. The main thing you do have to make sure you have is cream cheese. This has been softening up. I dont even normally like cream cheese, but it binds everything together in this recipe. And also, little bit of milk. Rex, would you like to pour this . Any variation of milk would work. And we use low fat cream cheesed. We served it to our family from louisiana last night. They didnt complain about the low fat. If you dont tell them its no fat, they wont notice. Rex, do you want to help me mix this up . We got two big spoons here. Hes wonderful. Theres lots of different variations. The idea is you mix it all together. Then you start to stir in the mixture into the rectangles that youve made. Mixing it up. Placing it in there. How much goes in each rectangle. It makes a lot. You dont want to overfill because then its going to ooze out. You start scooping some in there. Good job, rex. I didnt soften the cream cheese as much as i should have. This will work. Youll be softening it. Its all going to bake together. Exactly. We do this. And then we pulled together the corners. Rex is really good at that. Then we twist it at the top. I can tell youve done this before, rex. He knows youve got to pinch the seam. You can spray it with olive oil and sprinkle bread crumbs on it. You put this in the oven on 350 for about 25 minutes. Then they will puff up. These we ate for dinner last night. I just microwaved them again so they flattened out. Theyre really good. So they puff up. I love it. Its a great use for leftovers. You can, these flattened out overnight. Youve got the cresent roll. Youve got your vegetables, your dairy and the meat as well. Put it all into one. Makes it easy for kids to eat. You can just make a salad onned the side and youre done. You can log on to our website or selfa selfaddressed envelope to sunday brunch stay with us. Were back with one last look at the weather. A wintry mix tomorrow. Shouldnt be a concern. By Christmas Day sunny. Were back in the kitchen. Introduce us. Charlotte is 20 months old and my husband randolph. Charlotte thinks were playing playdoh. Rex helps make the recipe. Thank you. Merry christmas. Have a great day everybody. As we come to the close of another year, we think of our loved ones who are sacrificing their lives for our liberty and pursuit of happiness. For that reason we take our regularly scheduled editorial time to share greetings from those in the military to families in maryland. These will also be available on wbal tv. Com. Click on editorials. Happy holidays. Hi. Im stationed in kabul, afghanistan. I want to say seasonings greetings to my wife and daughter. Love you and miss you and hope to see you soon. My name is dominic. I would like to send a holiday shout out to my family. My daughters, my husband, my sister. I love and miss you all. And my family in maryland. Bye. Im specialist ryan brown serving the seventh u. S. Cavalry. Id like to say hi to my family and friends back in bel air, maryland. Happy holidays and i miss you guys. Im currently serving in afghanistan. Id like to wish my family and friends in maryland, happy ho