every year people come through for us. so i'm hoping, but you can't give what you don't have. >> reporter: the ever closing gap between tvs and have nots in a struggling economy. in baltimore county brian kuebler abc2 news. now the county still needs thousands of toys to pull off their annual toy store. to help you can drop off a toy at any baltimore county library branch or call the office of volunteer services the number right there on your screen. (410)853-3021. there's another way to help make the season brighter for children in our area. we're asking you to join us for the 12th annual kin der toy drive. this year we've also teamed up with the baltimore symphony orchestra to collect instruments for their orchestra kids program. we have a list of the drop off locations on our web site at abc2news.com. let's take a look at tonight's top stories. major mark forwood with the harford county sheriff's office has been fired after allegationes stole from a bel- air home depot. this is the second time he's been investigateed for theft. the first incident came after the store reported he purchased items over several months returned them for a refund he used his receipt to exit the store with similar items valued at more than a thousand dollars. he's accused of placing several item inside a tool box and hiding it under a larger container at the check out. well today is world aids day people around the world are marking the day, and according to the united nations, new hiv infections have dropped by almost 20% nationwide over the past decade. but there's still more work to be done in the u. s. fewer than half of all americans, 45% have had an aids test. that's even after guidelines were expanded to include routine screening. today's stormy weather flooded the city dock annapolis. high winds downed trees and power lines and several roads had to be shut down because of all the flooding. quite a bit of rain out there, kelly, through the morning hours. unbelievable really in some spots. quickly picking up more than an inch of rain. now we're seeing clearing on maryland's most powerful radar but the question how long does that last. we think it will last several days probably. there is some snow shower action out in west virginia and southwestern pa as well as ohio. our rain now offshore. check out some of the daily rain totals from our weather net sites our exclusive weather net across maryland. 1.93 inches down. an inch and a third in edge mere and well over an inch in edgewood. chester town about three quarters of an inch. and half an inch in easton. look at the windchill factors feeling like the mid and upper 30s. a chilly night out there. 30s for the rest of the evening air temp wise but will feel more like the 20s 9:00, 10:00 tonight. we'll talk about the deep freeze overnight into the next few nights straight ahead. >> thanks, wyatt. an alabama man accused of murdering his wife on their honeymoon has waved his extradition rights. prosecutors believe dave watson devised a plan to kill his wife in alabama before the trip. diana has the latest. >> reporter: his american homecoming began with an arrest and extradition hearing. gabe watson will be tried for murder 7 years after the death of his bride tina. tina went into distress while scuba driving. she's laying on the ocean floor. alabama prosecutors believe watson turned off her oxygen tank because he wanted her life insurance money. watson said he tried helping his wife. >> she had both her arms out stretched up and almost like looking at me with arms up to grab. >> reporter: an experienced diver watson said he had to let her go or risk drowning as well. a australia court convicted him of manslaughter he served just 18 months. american prosecutors believe watson planned tina's death prior to leaving the states. they argued there are no international rules in relation to double jeopardy and asked that watson be extradited. it took a major compromise. >> the death penalty would not be instituted against mr. watson should he be returned to the united states. >> reporter: watson's attorney says his client has already served his time. tina's family says true justice has yet to be served. >> what we want is to see him face the evidence for the very first time before a jury and stand before that evidence and answer to it. >> reporter: despite the deal between prosecutors watson still faces a maximum punishment of life in prison. let's take a look at news from around the nation. students in wisconsin return to school two days after 23 of their classmates and teachers were held hostage by another student. that student shot and killed himself. students and family say sam hung l was a kind straight a student. they did release a statement saying they are saddened by the loss of their son but happy that no one else was hurt. that michigan dad charged with parental kidnapping of his three missing sons is fighting his return from michigan. his attorney says he did it no wish to wave extradition. his sons have been missing since thanksgiving. he was arrested yesterday. his bond is set at $3 million and another hearing is scheduled for december 14th. well, it's a symbol that city officers can look at every day to remember one of their own. today family, friends and baltimore city police officers gathered to honor detective brian stevenson with a very special dead indication. s entrance to the northeast district where stevenson was stationed has been named in his honor. 37-year-old officer died in october after he was hit in the head with a piece of concrete following a dispute over a parking space in canton. cops say the signs will keep them in their horse. the men and women in blue are constantly in theirs. >> you all are constantly in our prayers for safety to follow you and to be a continual hedge of protection around you. on behalf of the family we thank you for loving brian and being there for us. so our hat's off to you all. >> stevenson was an 18 year veteran of the city police force. he was assigned to a unit that investigates crimes including shootings and assault. cracker barrel may not be that great for your waistline but it is free to protect our planet. why if you own an electric car the southern style restaurant is the place to go. plus a florida business owner makes a big sacrifice to help employees. find out what she did that shocked her employees. 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singer lady gaga. actress megan fox justin bieber american idol and finally britney spears. millions of people are losing their unemployment benefits which expires at midnight. it's part of the plan to reduce the national debt. we're going to take a look at what other changes could be heading our way. plus some severe weather tore through the southeast is now hitting the northeast. how the storm is causing some major problems. . president obama's deficit panel was actually urging lawmakers to make some bold moves to get this run away debt under control. meanwhile many lawmakers are refusing to extend long term jobless benefits because they don't want to add to the debt. here's john hendry. >> reporter: for 2 million americans like ellen andrews today is the first day with no safety net. >> it means that i am keeping lights on keeping food in the house. some things just barely. >> reporter: long term jobless benefits ran out tuesday after democrats and republicans could not agree on an extension despite a last ditch effort by senator jack read. >> acting now is the right thing to do do. the responsible thing to do. but wisely economic thing to do. >> reporter: the main concern driving that decision, the national debt. >> we have to take draconian action at the worst possible time. >> reporter: the national commission on fiscal responsibility and reform meeting in washington plans to offer a debt reduction plan on friday. the solution from democrat erskine bowls and republican allen simpson lots of pitter medicine including a 15-cent gallon like in the gas tax. cutting social security payments for high income seniors raising the retirement age to 69. cutting spending closing 1 third of military bases abroad. eliminating the tax deduction for home mortgages over $500,000. >> i don't expect any of you to like every aspect of this plan. i don't like every aspect of this plan. i can tell you from my viewpoint i usually go to the liquor store when i leave here, the report is subtitle had the moment of truth. but the real moment of truth will come when they smith to it the president and congress and lawmakers will have to decide whether they can make those politically perilous cuts. many employers face tough choices in this economy especially around the holidays. but one florida business owner did something that shocked her entire staff. she decided to lay herself off. lola gonzalez has 9 employees and needed to trim the payroll. instead of cutting a few employees she told them how much she appreciated all the work and she couldn't bear to he let them go so she told them she would cut her own job. >> my employees are the most trusted. they have been here for years. they have been loyal, they have been dead dated. it was just the right thing to do in my opinion. >> she still owns the company but will use her former manager 's salary to keep all 9 employees on the job. students have the opportunity to get some hands on job experience. students from the randallstown high school academy of finance teamed up with at&t employees. students learned from important career skills and of course literacy. >> i was hoping to get out get an extra push when i go to college and have a little exposure to the job market. >> so far the program has helped some 50,000 students across the country. not a good day to be flying. every major airport up and down the east coast had delays today because of that wicked weather that wreaked havoc. new york la guard was was up to 5.5 hours in some cases. t. j. winick has the very latest. >> reporter: like a lave size dollhouse you can easily inside ariana's home. >> it's the most important thing we wanted to get like some bibles and some of my family photos. >> reporter: she lost the entire side of her georgia home when a 125 miles an hour twist sister destroyed homes in this community. >> it got real quiet. bunch of rain came on you hear the wind vibrate the house and all of a sudden heard commotion outside and houses right down to the ground. >> reporter: the east coast was hit with another day of severe rain and weather knocked out power to thousands, caused millions in damage and killed at least 2 people. winds blew a tree into this new jersey home while tornado and flood watches remained in effect for much of the southeast as far north as washington d. c. >> the reason for that was a big clash of air marses cold air rushing throughout meeting up with warm air coming in from the gulf of mexico and lots of energy in the atmosphere were able to produce severe thunderstorms, lots of damaging wind gusts. >> reporter: in tennessee a rock slide followed two inches of rain blocking part of a highway between knoxville and the airport. across the midwest it's all about the bitter cold and now snow which has made for a harrowing commute. >> down south it was pretty slick. i just come from the south side there was a wreck at 65. >> reporter: the soaking rain is forecasted to end quickly tonight from south to north. the big story going into the weekend and all of next week will be that cold air an lots of lake effect snow. t. j. winick abc news new york. . >> look at though pictures and realize things could have been a lot worse. >> absolutely kelly. when we see these powerful systems in late fall which technically we are still in oftentimes that clash, very warm air that we had for several days, that's where you get the battleground you get tornadoes in the south are you get icy conditions in the northern plains and here we get the cold rain and now the cold air coming in. >> let's take a look day number one kelly. take a lookout there right now. we're drying out kelly. breezes of a dry nature. winds west northwest at 15. gusting much higher. barometer rising that's a good sign earlier today was not. we had heavy rains. weather net camera capturing murky conditions. you can see plenty of rain early in the morning as well. it was awfully slick for a while. boy that temperature just dropping out there courtesy of a told and blustery north wind. look at some of the peak wind gusts. edge mere 47. weather net sites west of baltimore finding winds gusts around 46 to had 4 iamsville to clarksville. winds have relented some. rain as cleared out. look at this cold air settles into the western parts of the state edging into baltimore. we haven't gotten into the core of the frigid stuff but it's coming down the pike. we're not going to be able to avoid. still pretty breezy l still dealing with a windchill as wind gust 26 to 32. look what it feels like with the winds. 26 headacheers town that's the windchill that's pretty harsh and 35 here in baltimore. looking at your day tomorrow early on some mixture of clouds and sun but we struggle to get to the low 40s. even don here in the southern range of our viewing area you'll be lucky to top out in the low 40s tomorrow. >> that's going to be a huge change. snow showers being picked up well off to the west of misdemeanor. southern pennsylvania southwestern pa to be specific, and through ohio. lake effect enhancement going on. but none of this really expected to reach our state except maybe far western maryland frostburg cumberland could see flurries tonight. we notice that cold air rolling in. as we go forward in time here tomorrow mixture of clouds and sun cold day cold winter keep coming in. friday a little more sunshine but still a chilly today and each night well down into the 20s. >> that's cold. so overnight 27, clearing and again just the buzz word cold. little less windy but still breezy. 42. tomorrow night down to about 28 or so crystal clear but still frigid. 7-day forecast looking ahead to the day jamie can't get out of his mind. ravens sunday baby 42 degrees that day. we may see a little flurry action coming that night. that would be interesting, but not a lot of precipitation. just cold throughout the outlook of december in like a lion. >> you warmed it up to 27. it was 26 yesterday. >> i'm 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[ female announcer ] now the best protection also comes in new prints and colors. . it was in danger of closing 6 years ago but now it's one of the top ample theaters in the country. columbia mary weather post pavilion. the venue you draws 250,000 people to concerts each year. for the past few years it's been home to richard branson' virgin mobile free festival a music festival where tickets are free. coming up a new plan announced today could save baltimore county taxpayers some $8 million. that story plus wyatt's full forecast coming up on abc2 news at 6:00 which starts right now. here is the history of your weather up till now. first it was windy like real windy, like tornado like warnings in some sports then it rained, and it rained some more and then the sun came out it got cold as the thermometer dropped 20 degrees in no time. i'm jamie costello with your 6:00 news. now that we know the past let's find out what our weather future looks like. here's wyatt everhart. wyatt. jamie, definitely a nasty start to our day we had the rain, we had the wind and through the afternoon we had some clearing but the bottom line chilly, windy weather, continuing and it's only going to get colder from here especi