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group raised close to 14 billion dollars in the fight against breast cancer. but many people are now saying they won't donate to the group anymore. they claim komen buckled under pressure from antiabortion activists planned parenthood has been under scrutiny about a republican led investigation over how it provides abortion services. komen denies the politics played a part of in the decision but the president of planned parenthood disagrees. >> i think really what this is a result of is this very ugly and aggressive campaign by right wing organizations to bully the komen foundation. >> reporter: you can go to abc2news.com on the slide show we post administratory about this and the debate that's going on. if you also go to komen's actual facebook page, this is lighting up with so many comments. in the last couple hours, ceo of komen explained the new policies and why funding was cut. there's thousands of comments on here. people angry over the decision to cut funding. kara says say bye to tons of donations mine for sure. a lot of outrage over that decision. we will keep you posted on what's going on facebook and the comments people are living. linda so, abc2 news. >> thanks. we want to know what you think on our facebook page. this is today's hot topic. what do you think? would you participate in the events here in maryland supporting susan g. komen. head to the wmar facebook fan page and let us know what you think. new information about a proposed move of a grade of students out of a brand new school building and this morning abc2 news education reporter sherrie johnson is here to explain how the baltimore county school officials are reviewing their options and they have got a lot to think about. >> reporter: exactly,charley. some parents are so concerned about this issue that another public meeting has been scheduled for next week. this is to talk about the plamore. this right here is west towson elementary school. and just about 30 feet away this is the ruxton ridge school building. now this fall, baltimore county school officials plan to move the 4th grade class from west towson elementary into the ridge ruxton school building. west towson opened in the fall of 2010. it's overcrowded and county officials say it will only get worse. parents from ridge ruxton a school for children with special needs are concerned about the impact on that school. they fear losing space will have a negative impact on children. they also worry they won't get the classrooms back or more classrooms will be taken away later. >> i wish i could have the trust and faith this is where it would stop but don't believe them because they said they wouldn't touch the school to begin with. >> reporter: once again there will be a meeting that is scheduled for next week. school officials say they plan to build a new school in timonium to help alleviate overcrowding. but there's no timeline reported on that new school. reporting live in towson sherry johnson abc2 news. seems -- sher hi -- sherrie johnson, abc2 us. digital books are viewed as way to provide interactive learning potentially saving money and get updated material to students faster. if you are hoping to get one of the school books and pub learned by amazon "new york times" reports barnes and noble will no longer carry the rival print. the decision is in reaction to exclusive deals amazon made withpublishing companies and agents and oughtors from amazon titles were available at the bookstore's website and that could be changing. six years after one of themost destructive hurricanes, one town is doing all they can to stay save. >> what they are doing to make sure it won't happen again. a big announcement from the domed. that's coming up today -- donald. coming up today. who he could throwing his support behind. details coming up next. you are watching, what's new, now and next on this thursday, february 2nd. that's you have times square? >> looks quiet for times square. >> very quiet and that's a load. -- road. we are back in a bit. now "good morning maryland." 8 minutes after a a huge floodgate has been completed for the city of new orleans. it's one of the biggest parts of the storm barrier for the city. the sea brook floodgate locate where the industrials canals open up are fully operational and engineers say it could have protected city from flooding during hurricane katrina. all right. check this out. left of the screen and take a look at the video ought caught on dash cam a huge fireball lighting up skies through they canas -- texas and oklahoma. upper right hand sliding across. it appears this is a possible meteor caught on police dash cam but here's what amazing. it was seen from as far south as waco all the way as far north as oklahoma city and when you drive, that's about a 6- hour differential by way of the road. >> pretty. >> you know that's going to get lynette excited. >> i like that. >> i never seen one so anything i never seen we have talk about -- talked about tornadoes and they are destructive we want to see them out in the field. anything especially me being a meteorologist i like to to see anything dealing with nature. the temperatures are not so bad. good morning towson. you are right around 44 degrees. arnold is right around 48. westminster 44. and manchester right now is at 47 degrees. and middletown is at 50. so i am giving outgood news. but, we have the rain once again. it will be moving out of here as we go into mid morning after the next round. but the biggest batch of rain is to the south of baltimore. we can see it moving over the bay. and we are in for it into graysonville and annapolis. heavy rain around the area as of now. it's sliding towards easton and we are getting it into queenstown this morning. you can see the yellows and oranges to the south of centerville and that's the scenario going through, i would say, until the sun begins to rise. we will get a break and then we will see another batch of rain move into the area. but in the meantime, we are going to be talking about the roads this morning because you know angela, it seems like a drop of rain will make it pretty bad out there. how is it looking? seems like people are behaving. >> reporter: it's pretty good especially south of the city as you mentioned. we had another look at 95 just a few minutes ago. things are moving well. and 295 the bw parkway. 97 for those of you traveling through glen burnie and we had an earlier incident on crane highway in glen burnie at knoll park but that's moved over to the side as well. no incidents reported on i-70 or a on i-83 as we can see here it's clear make your way to the top side of the beltway. traveling on the northwest expressway, here's what you will find once you get to the northwest side of 695. very quiet here as we get a live look at the beltway and old court road. now over to you. governor o'malley talks tax increases during the state of the state address yesterday. coming up a breakdown of where you may see a increase and how much it could affect your wallet. and mitt romney gets a sparkly surprise. how his security reacted. coming up. first, there's a special happy birthday on this thursday to matt who loves school, art and loves the scooter. >> handsome fella. if you have an interesting photo, you want to us air it, we would love to show it off, pets, anniversaries, birthdays, it could be the picture of the day. send it to morning show at wmar.com. now "good morning maryland." welcome back. battle for the republican presidential nomination has now moved to nevada which holds caucuses this weekend. but for mitt romney who had a strong showing in florida, he is in damage control for how some are interpreting comments he he made to cnn soledad o'brien. corinne radman is standing by --redman is standing by with the latest on how he is handling this. >> reporter: romney and his team are in full damage control because after making the morning show round, to capitalize on the big win in florida, he told cnn i am not concerned about the very poor. political analyst say by making the statement he is feeding into the out of touch rich guystereotype pointed out by competitors and democrats and it was a gift to opponents who argue he is out of touch. some call the remarks the stupid of his campaign. president obama tweeted so much for we are all in this together. >> i am not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net there. if it needs repair i will take it. >> i am fed up with politicians in either party dividing americans against each other. i am running to be the president of all the american people. >> reporter: now multiple gop say they are worried because this is not the first time made a verbal gaffe said i like being able to fire people in a past peach. corinne redman, abc2 news. spending of mitt romney he got a new look a man protesting against romney threw a full bag of glitter on him. if you remember it happened to newt gingrich but the security team pounced on the man and took him out of the building. someone said the intent was to underscore the donations to the mormon church and stance against gay marriage. megan. >> thanks. today, the donald is expected to make a big announcement. he is going to be in las vegas and he has not said exactly what he is going to say. however sources say he will endorse gop candidate newt gingrich. his announcement comes just days before the nevada primary scheduled for saturday. he is section speced to speak sometime -- expected to speak sometime this morning. newt gingrich says he is putting a positive spin on his defeat in florida. the primary there. the former house speaker said at a rally yesterday, that he wants to compete in every single caucus meeting in nevada up to the primary. gingrich said nevada is a state where romney had a huge vote and acknowledges he has a bigadvantage. this morning, many of you are reacting to the governor here. the state of the state address that was yesterday. governor o'malley covered every thing from the controversial six cent gas tax to same sex marriage. his push to allow same sex couples to wed is likely to tay take place in the house of delegates -- to take place in the house of delegates. >> i am asking you to make the right decision and admittedly the tough decision and it's not right and it is not just the children of gay couples should have lesser protection than the children of other families in our state. >> the same sex bill started yesterday and committee is expected to vote on the bill next week. the governor's plan to raise taxes is creating an uproar this morning. so let's look closer at what it means. he says it will create jobs and improve schools as well as roads. o'malley says we are moving out of the recession but we still have not recovered the jobs that were lost. he wants to lev yea 6% sales -- levy a 6% sales tax on gas and double the flush tax and raise taxes on cigars and collect tax when you shop on amazon. republican senator said he is relying too much on tax and says there are just the same old taxes to spend policies and slow economic growth. all right we are going to switch gears a little bit and talk about something that we all are very passionate about. the weather. some people are bum out we haven't seen more -- bummed out that we haven't seen more snow and others are we will take it. >> i am trying to please everybody but it is what it is. we are in a very warm pattern. temperatures are going to be dropping off but still above average megan. >> and today of course groundhog day. >> exactly. >> lost people want to know what punks tany phil will do and did -- punxsatawney phil do you put stot in this or -- stock in this or think it's interesting tradition. >> i think it's interesting tradition. things are look up. satellite and -- looking up. we are socked in with clouds. and visibility problems along the eastern shore this morning. but, we will start to improve as we go throughout the day. so that's what we like to see. we can see the big swath of moisture all the way back down into the carolinas as of now. and then we will get in on another round of showers as we go i say maybe around 8:00 and this will push out by lunchtime. and then we will see clearing out there. we do have this area of low pressure located along a frontal boundary and this is what's going to be moving through as we go into your 7:00 time frame. but future trend picking up on the fact we will be seeing plenty sunshine once the cold front passes through. high pressure will build in across the area and we will have nice times ahead if you like the drier weather. today's temperatures 55 degrees. rain that will be cooler than yesterday. yesterday we hit the 70s in a lot of spots. and by tonight the temperature at 32 clearing skies and tomorrow's temperature will be 50 degrees and here's check of the seven-day forecast for you as we will stay seasonable going through time. all right. we are looking at cooler conditions on saturday and sunday. we like that. what do you have on the roads angela? >> reporter: we are okay as far as incidents but we have a problem for those of you traveling northbound 95 heading up into cecil county. overnight work zones have been shut down for the most part. but we still have one out there. northbound 95 at maryland 222. police say they hope they will be out of the way shortly because they continue to block 2 right lanes. as you mentioned we need to be alert for areas of low visibility especially traveling to and from the eastern shore but no reported troubles on u.s. 29 getting through clarksville. also a live look at traffic on 695 in catonsville. volume giving to -- beginning to build as being see on left side of the screen. now over to you. romanian students have been arrested on hacking charges. stay with us. what secret u.s. systems were hacked and the code name the hackers used. and a soccer game turns violent killing dozens of people 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of hacking the pentagon and u.s. servers has been rafted. he transferred dater from a computer system without authorization and causing serious disruptions to a computer network. and dozens are dead and hundreds injured after riots broke out following a soccer game in egypt. all of this happened in the stadium in a northwestern city of the port after the team beat the port team. fans from both sides bashed each other with rocks and chairs and at least 73 people were killed and more than 100 injured. new information about alzheimer's disease this morning. >> coming up harks new reports show -- up, how reports show new adults could be affected even if healthy. what a woman did to get her removed from the classroom foregood. details coming up as "good morning maryland" continues. is that florida? >> that's myrtle beach. >> south carolina. >> 40 degrees here and there it is dark and looks windy and the flags are moving in the wind. but, gorgeous we have had -- week we have had here. >> good golf there. >> i knew you would find that angle. we will be right back. now "good morning maryland." we are following the case of a man accused of scamming people out of thousands of dollars in a paving scam. what happens later today. i am sherrie johnson. live in towson where proposed changes to move student in baltimore county schools have some parents upset. find out the latest on those changes. what wisconsin is doing to get upper hand on a the rising number of unsolved murders many we will tell you what gee going on on this thursday, february 2nd. 5:29 good morning i am charley crowson. >> i am megan pringle. friday is almost here. >> friday is almost here. we have this two days in the 60s. lynette charms, -- charles, what do you for us today? >> rain for you this morning. >> what? >> i know. noi. we are getting everything -- i know. we are getting a little bit of everything. happy groundhog day. temperatures will be cooler for today. we have that rain mainly in the morning and i think a second round should get out going more into lunchtime. and then we have more sunshine coming up and then for the second half of the weekend, there's a chance for a shower to come in the picture. so speaking of the showers,

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