consultann julius henson. one of the locations is right here. 516 north charles street. -n downtoww baltimore. iivestigators also targeted %-all in an effort to gatherr information, potential evidence, we caught up with enson shortly after the raad. here is hht he had to say tt our ppotographer. @% sir was your house visited %->> you will have to alk to te state prosecutors. >> somebody did stop by and talk to you today? >> you will have to tall to them. hhve a good day. thebet in this position for a regarding the case. now, it is important to point out that a civil complaiit has@ been filed against henson. by maryland attorney general doug gansler.3 and as a result of the robo calls, that were made on election night. were all in an effort to suppress voter turnout for governor o'malley. >> reporting in downtown baltimore. joy lepola, fox 45 news "late edition." >> the plan to expand the coovention enter and buuld a new arena is goinn to be costly for the city of baltimore. -he price taa sits between 750 and $930 million. those for it ay it will rejuvenate downtown. but those against it say it is not time with the economy. we asked you all night, should we spend hundreds of millions in tax money for a new arena. 78% say no. 22% say yes. catreen if nawrote, no. it is a waste offtaxpayer hard-earned money. joseph said, yes, if we build3 it, they will come. 21-year-olddman is lockkd up to sexually assault a 12-year-old boy. baltimore county olice say 21-year-old shaun sleigh of havre de grace walked into holabird middle school thursday morning. according to court documents, the suspect waited almmss 30 minutes iiside of a school @%throom beffre dragging aa3 12-year-old boy into a stall, where he attempted toosexually assault him. whee he seventh grader fought back, yielded for help, school resource officer ran to the scene and made the arrest. >> for some reason he was in this neighborhood. only known to him. and only for reasons known to him that he targeted this >> the suspect is facing several sex offense charges tonight. he is being heed on a $1 million >> a grinch almost steals christmas after pooice say he stole money froo a bake sale for rescued animals. it happened wednesdaa, during the holidayylight show on 34th and hampden. workers with barks rescue shelter had a bake sale to raise cash, and a man stole the donation box nd took off. several people chased him down. @% he did not apologize. denied it was him. and he is absolutely id not care. >> he was arrested and the shelter goo back the 200 ssolen dollars. bad, bad day. day for spiderman. broadway show issdelayed again. prooucers of the mmsicaa spiderman, turn off the dark. fourth time. claiming there are too many kinks to workout in the show. oppning night is ow set foo february z don't ccunt on it. >> great day in the unitee arab emirates where you will find the most expensive christmas tree at theepalace hotel. ttee covered in 130 ornaments wiih gold, diamonds, sapphires, total price for the tree, is $11 million. >> great day for humility. president obama was in the wwssington d.c. suburbs, reading tis the night before christtas and then came theestory about his dog o. >> a lot of timess walk boat night. that's fun. sometimes i run arouud with bo. although, i have to sometimes scoop up hii poop. >> ewww. >> because i don't want to leave it on the lawn. so if youu ave a dog you have to walk yoor dog do. and clean up after him a bit. all right. guys i havv to go. >> merry christmas everyone. happy holidays. >> the most powerful man on earth showing good will toward bo.3 >> maryland gained 2100 jobs lass month. but unemployment rate did not go down. overall, private employers cct 700 jobs, but the gooernment aaded 2800. unemployment in maryland remains at 7.4%. maryland has 31,,000more people than it did in 2009.@ the lame duck congress got one thing done today.@ but still has a lot of important issues to deaa with. as craig boswell tells us, llwmakers need to act fast to prevent a government shut down. >> just two weeks before taxes were due to increase. president obama signs the ax tax cuts for two years. >> not only will middle class americans avoid a tax incrrase, butttens of millions of americans will start the new year off right by opening the fiist paycheck to see that it is laager than the one they get right noo. -> motion is adopted.easure funding the government. which runs out of money saturday. killed after senate republicans pulled support. and nearly 2000 page measure contained $8 billion in ear %->> congress geering up for one last big spendinggspree,,before christmas, with thousands of ear marks, but the american people just would not stand for it. >> to avoii a government shut down. house prefers a temporary funding measurr to keep the federal government in business unnii tuesday. senate is connidering a continuing resolution to fund the government until februarr. but it is the start nuclear treaty with russia that him dominated debbte on the senate side. >> ratification of this reaty is essential to the secuuity of the united states. >> many republicans say the treaty limits missile defense and oppose it during lame duck session. >> it took 67 senators to ratify @%. the senate majority leader sayts eve. washington, delaying his vacation until congress completes its work. innwashington, craig bosweel, cafox news..3 real snow of the year. >> yeah, do we have anything ii go to emily gracey with a first look at the ssy watch forecast.g good. but things haveechanged. models pushing stuff off the coastt good news as far as the weather is oncerred for the weekenn. looking ouuside this evening. dry conditions as well. it is cold oot there though.@ temperatures are dropping down3 into the low 20s already. 21 baltimore. shore, in salisbury. it will be a chilly night. refreezing on the roadways. so icy out there. and be aware of that as you are headed out tonight or tomorrow morning. then temperatuues only in the@ mid 30s again tomorrow. now while e may not have snow in store for the weekend. there is snow in the extended forrcast. i will have the details on that coming up. >> a rail tonight on several gm suvs and cross overs, reeall affects 100,000, 2011 cars. the seatbeltsscoulddfail during @%crash. @%neral motors will makeefree repairs next month. -> 3,000,000 heaters recalledd3 because of fire and burr concerns. this recall includes flo pro,3 air ttch, aloha breeze and comfort essentials. all sold at wal-mart between@ 2001 and 2009. owners can return them for a full refund. >> a deer stuck on ice. you will see the rescue straight out of a disney movie. >> hurts when you have to do that to your own kii. but i had no other chhice. >> heart ache over whht this father haddto do to his own son, next.@ >> health differences >> near detroit michigan, reynolls, made a decision that makes good common sense. but it is still hard. he knew his son ronnie had commiited four armmd robberies in the past. and served five years in jail %-own dad.ime,,ronnie robbed his takinggsome rare coins and guns. from hissfather's hhuse. >> he asked me, what do you want us to do. kid robbed me. i want him locked up. i am too old i cannot handlee3 thii any more. the kid called me from the he wants me to drop the charges. so he can get ouu. i wwn't do it. i will not bail him out again. >> reynolds say it is thh hardest decision he has ever had to make. -on every day.s he prays for is north korea threatenn to hit south korea harder thannlast month if soul orea goes alonn with maneuvers.@ they are not backing down promising they will as planned. russia is stepping ii and urging south ot to go ahead with@ exercises. but u.s. defends seoul's decision. >> robbery in hhuston, turns deadly.@ three robbers pullld out a weapon and tied up the owner's wife. @%d owner useddhis own gun and killed all three of the suspects. the owner was also shot in all the firingg @%pected to fully recover. >> the widow of a man that %-modoff's ponzi scheme wants to @-he died october of last year.3 lawyers, hhwever, told his wido3 she may be able o keep most of @%e money. and inntead she is giving nearly all of it baak. madoff is serving 150 years behind bars. >> shoveling the scraping is done for now. hopefully until may. >> for now. meteorollgist emily gracey is back with the sky watch fooecast. @%llo em. >> dii you say until may? >> yes. >> i don't know about that. we have snow in the forecast. it will come this weekend but next week. looking outside, certainly no snow in our forecast for this evening. clear skies. cold conditions in baltimore. 21 degrees right now under mostly cloudy skies. our winds are caam and humidity is at 77%. so we did see a bii of snow yesterday. 20s.temperatures in he lowoday. that comes up with icc conditions on the roadways out@. that will be the case for tonight. but we will rise above freezing tomorrow afternoon. so once again, we will see more melting of anything that didn't melt for today. everybooy has been wondering what is going on with coastall3 system we have been hearing previous model runs said that this would bring us snow. but it looks like it will stay far enough off the coast it will not bring us snow in central maryland. still slight chance on the eastern shore, but watching the low track up thh coast bringing moisture to carolinas during the day tommrrow. and tomorrow night anddearly sunday morning. it gets closer to our area. but stays far enough east it will bring all the moisture out@ to the atlantic. and just clouds for us. now by late tomorrow night, early tooorrow morning. few folks on he eastern shore, -ave a slight chance of snow @%owers. said, will stay off the coast. and track back out to sea over the next coupleeof days. for tonight, we will drop down to 20. icy roadways, with wiids out of the est at 5 miles per hour. and then for tomorrow, another day. chilly, like today. 36 degrees for that afternoon high oo the eastern shore. and we will see mostly cloudy skies there. now the furthhr east you move. sunshine. western mmryland will be the greatest chance of sunshine. but central maryland. 35 degrees. and then a littleebit cooler than that back west with partly cloudy skies. 33 in western maryland. with calm winds. for tomorrow, 35 degrees. mostly cloudy. 36 sunday.3 ii ill be cool for the game. but winds calm. cooler than that on mmnday. next chance of snow comes in tuesday with a hhgh of 35. that's a slight chance of snow showers before ww clear out again on wednesday. i will have look at the christmas eve.ast, including coming up in a bit. back to you. probably are in bbtter shape than married couples. scientists say married folks hhve a dip in cardiovascular fitness.3 single and divorred men had an increase in itness levels. single wommn re more physically -it as well. but they do not have the same -ivorre bennfits physically as men. >> well, you helped to give the@ here at fox 45 studios. to our clothing drive durinn he morning news. the items will be sent to the loccl organization st. vincent depaul of baltimore and distributed to the less fortunate in the area. a wide array of groups supported the effort, including chhrches and schools. >> we collectee coats and santa we had last weekeedd and we had a mission tree foo our parish. and over 200 items, gift wrapped, of hats nd gloves and scarves donated. ann thankful for everything that we have. soowe wanted to, you know, reach out to people that weee less fortunate than ourselves. and keep someone warm that otherwise may not be warm this season. >> thanks to your generosity.@ we collected more than 1 on of warm winnerrclothing. >> this year is having aareally bad day. but all is well thattends well for this young buck. that's next. >> the ravens' offense has beee ♪ [ mom ] my son finally got a cell phone. we found a plan we could actually afford. ♪ he thinks it's for him, but it's probably more for me. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing the 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>> he is going this is so embarrassing. -> great day for eople with no life. saaramento califfrnia thursday. world record for the longgstak a together 1500, half a mile long. now guinness decides whether this effort is worth putting in the books or not. @ >> despite having a 9-4 record and still in the playoff hunt. ravens' offense has been non-existent in the second hhlf. not scored a touchdown in the second half of the last four games. that keeps the defense on the field longer. whiih makes it more difficult to hold off an opponent. they have bbown eight, forth quarter leads this season. three of which were 30 seconds left. cam cameron said this is the >> there is opportunities, therr is also circumstances that come up in games. but there is a bottom line. you know, bottom line is we have to take care of the football, and scooe. and we have to find a way to do. that especially, always talk about finnshing, finishing drives, finishing games, but whaa better time than now to start finishing games. becauss e need to. especially down the stretch. if you are not finishing games you will make it more difficult than it should be. >> and remember, you can see the superbowl champions new orleans battle offtwo, second placce3 teams, asssaints try to keep pace with the division leading falcons. and 9-forayvins hope to gain ground on the steelees. saints and ravens, 1:00, on fox 45 sunday. >> to the south..3 redskins have beened quarterback donovan mcnabb for the remainder of the season. in favor of rex grossman. washiigton traded a second round pick in the past draft and third or fourth rounder in next year's..3 mcnabb just signed a five year, $78 million exxensiin mid seeson. but the skins can cut him and the season. @%rmer raven beck will back up grossman for the final two mcnabb threw a career worth 15 interceptions s redskins are losing season.from another >> after days of ruuors and speculations, it is official. james franklin is the new head football coach at anderbilt. tte maryland offensive coordinator was designate as the coach innwaiting to ralph friedgen. this is franklin's first head coaching job and becomes the first minority coachhof the commodores. franklin s thiid headdcoach for vandy this year, coming off consecutive 2-10 seasons. ii 2209, rifles.com named franklinnone of the top 25 recruiters in he country. >> maryland plays east carolina in the military bowl on december 29. >> it look >> everyone needs a little help during he holiday season. >> even st. nick himself. and this is saint travis, in georgia, santa gets tons of thousands of letters, ss fay helps him out. >> i love santa claus letters and good to view chhistmas through the eyes offa chill. >> i wonder if she got 95 ine? >> she has been the helper for 15 years and doesn't plan to retire any time soon. >> what did you ask for? >> ercedes? beemer? >> diamond earrings. >> earrings. studs. merry christmas. >> emily gracey is back with the seven day sky watch forecast. it pays to be good. >> it does. >> we are looking at dry conditions for this eekend. mid 30s. so it will be cool. dry sunday. 36 for the afternoon high. and by monday, only 33. now a chance of snow tuesday. with mostly cloudy skies. after that dry out for the remainder of the week. staying below average. @%t warming little. by christmas eve, highs in the 30s. back to you. >> thank you. that will do it for the "late thank you for joining us. i am jeff barnd. >> and i am karen parks. up next is how i met