At 33 degrees. Make sure to have and dress accordingly as you step out the door this morning. Not only do we have very Cool Temperatures out there this morning. But we are also dealing with a little bit of wintery precipitation in southern maryland. So we can zoom in on a few spots as maybe your travels are going to be taking you into the areas. Be prepared as you head into hawk eye and cokeland copeland. You will see snow and sleet across the area as well. And even further to the south around snow hill, thats very appropriate this morning as well. Lets check the traffic with lauren cook. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Its back to work for many people. But if you are traveling on 795, you wont have delays to deal with. Its nice and clear from cockeysville to 695. This is what the beltway looks like. Old court road, no delays. An 8ment right on ride from 795 to 70. And as we look at the other beltways no delays on the east side. 11 minutes on the outer loop from 95 up to 83. And if you are using the jfx to get downtown, its clear traveling southbound from the beltway down to fayette street. That stretch will take you just 11 minutes. Thats a look at your traffic megan and charley over to you. Chances are you wont have to pay more in income taxes even though the deadline has passed. We have avoided going over the fiscal cliff. Thats the good news. The bad news is this is not over. Sherrie johnson is live with the latest on what this means for you. Sherrie. Reporter well, after months of drama and some last minutenegotiating, Congress Passed legislation to avoid the fiscal cliff. Lawmakers didnt make the deadline and didnt get the grand bargen that both parties claimed was the ultimate goal but democrats and republicans gave themselves credit for getting something done. There was concern among republicans about a lack of spending cuts. Some wanted to add them in but you will metly there were not ultimately there were not enough votes to it. The fiscal cliff deal would shield i come tax cuts for all workers earning less than 400,000 dollars a year. Also prevent a tax hike on the estates valued at less than 5 Million Dollars and extend Unemployment Benefits for about 2 Million People that were set to exspire. Now although congress missed the january 1st midnight deadlinebypassing the compromise Deal Congress can try to take credit for retroactive tax cuts. This law is just one step in the broader effort to strengthen our economy and broaden opportunity for everybody. Reporter they have to deal with automatic spending cuts they put off and there will be a after they fight over the debt ceiling. Sherrie johnson, abc2 news. Following last nights vote, congressman harris released a statement reading in part i oppose the legislation but in that increases taxes on 77 of people in my district. This bill is business as usual in washington and does nothing to deal with the real fiscal cliff, our 16. 4 trillion dollar deficit. In fact, it adds 4 trillion dollars to the debt. He goes onto add that americans will pay an average of 1,000 dollars more in taxes this year than last. News time 5 04. Hillary clinton continues to recover in a New York Hospital where she is treat being treated for a blood clot in her being streeted for a blood clot in her head. They are confident she will make a full recovery. She was admitted to the hospitalon sunday. A twoalarm fire damaged a church in prince georges county. Flames broke out around 7 30 at the First Wesleyan Church on objectionen hill. It took crews oxen hill. It tox 25 minutes to a get took crews 25 minutes to get everything under control. Two different separate parts of the church could be considered a point of origin and at any time that occurs, its red flag for fire investigators. The pastor says the church has never had problems in the neighborhood. No one was hurt and fixing the damage is going to run the church about 100,000 dollars. On twitter, baltimores fire chief congradulated the department on a job welldone in 2012. They ended the year with a record low fire related deaths, 12. On the first day of the year, city firefighters were back at work. A home in northeast baltimore caught on fire after 3 yesterday afternoon. No one was injured and crews got the flames under control quickly. They are trying to figure out what caused the fire. Victims of sandy will have to wait for the next session of congress to find out if they are going to get more federal help. House of representatives wrapped up this session of Congress Without considering a 60 billion dollar package. The Senate Passed the measure but because new lawmakers will be sworn in this month the legislative process will have to restart. Time for a check of the forecast. Lynette charles is back with us after sometime off. Yes. I am happy to be back. And we are going to be dealing with very cold temperatures. Theres more sunshine in the forecast as we go through time. Now this morning, we are not dealing with any type of sunshine. Just plenty of cloud cover across the area. And the further you go, in southern maryland, thats where you will deal with a little wintery weather across the area this morning. So be prepared for that. We are going to be talking about more sunshine moving in as we head throughout the day. Also the cold temperatures are going to be in place for today. We are at 34 right now in easton. Ijamsville at 30 and 29 degrees in owings mills. So the temperatures are below average as we go through time. And this will be the scenario for the next couple days. You can plan your day accordingly with the planner. Going into lunchtime today, 36 degrees and 37 degrees for our high. Lets check the traffic with lauren cook. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Going to be another cold day. But if you are traveling on 95, there are no delays. Its nice and clear from bel air to white marsh. Once you get to white marsh it will take 14 minutes to travel downtown. 695 is delay free. Nice and clear from parkville up to towson and looking live in hunt valley, 83 no delays here. It will be an easy ride from shawan to the beltway. It will remain clear on to the jfx and head downtown. Thats a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic. Now over to you. The playoffs are just days away. And if you are not there yet, its time to get the football in a football state of mind. How charm city is painting the town purple. And if your new years resolution was to slim down a bit, you may want to hold off. We have new research saying it may be okay to be a little overweight. Youre watching the station that works for you, abc2 baltimore. 7 minutes after 5. Keep your eyes out for abeen loge raven logo us because 300 locations were painted throughout the area. Two special golden logos will appear in the start. Fans who find the logos and upload the picture with the website, instagram or twitter account will be entered to win a chance to two tickets to the sundays playoff game. If you pass by city hall you will notice a giant ravens logo a crew was spraying the outline and fill it in yesterday. The mascot was there directing the painters on what to do and they painted one on federal hill. The ravens begin the playoff run at m and T Bank Stadium against indianapolis sunday at 1 00. So, lynette is it too soon to look down the road and see what we have in store weather wise. Its never too soon to look down the road weather wise. What do we have. We look dry but we are going to remain code. This is football season and weather. Lets bring it on. Right now, this morning, the theme of the cold weather will continue. Look at the temperatures that we have. We are at 26 degrees right now in norrisville. Sparrows point just had an update up one degree at the freezing degree mark still. 31 in clarksville and cambridge at 34 as well as centerville. Make sure to dress apropertyly as you step out this apropertyly as you step out this morning. Look aproaptly appropriately as you step out this morning. Central maryland is drive. We have cloud hovering but we do have High Pressure back off towards the west that will filter in as we go throughout the day. That will get rid of some of the clouds. Partly cloudy as we go into the afternoon. Future trend not picking up on a whole lot in terms of precip. But as we go through the next few days, we are not going to be seeing that much change. You can see on future trend as we head into friday, still staying dry. Speaking of friday and the weekend, things will be looking better, too. The 7day forecast in a second. Lets look at whats going on in terms of temperatures. Your high temperatures. We are talking about 37 degrees and we will get more sunshine in here than what we saw yesterday. Its going to be cold. Its going to be breezy and that 37 degrees is below average and we should be at 42 for this time of the year. By tonight, we will get very cold. This temperature is at 23 and we should be at 25 for a low and unseasonably cold we will be under partly cloudy skies by tomorrow. If you think today is cold, i am shaving off a few degrees. We will be coming in at 34. So even colder temperatures on tap. Finally the 7day forecast plan accordingly as we go in through friday i will pick you up. 36 degrees there. Staying in the 30s on saturday. By sunday we are talking about game time. We are more seasonable. Temperatures at 43. We look dry right now and the dry trend continues right into monday and tuesday of next week. Lets check the traffic now with lauren cook good morning. Reporter good morning. Unfortunately we have trouble in anne arundel county. A crash is along the eastbound lanes of route 50. On 95, no delays south of 195 no problems down to dc this morning. And its going to take the normal 12 minutes to travel from elk ridge to downtown baltimore. Heres what 695 looks like. Traffic is moving along on the west side at liberty road. No problems getting down to route 40 and as we check in and look live outside up in hunt valley, actually 83, just north of 695, everything up to speed. You wont have problems getting downtown using the jfx. Normal conditions 11 minutes southbound from the beltway all the way down to fayette street. Thats a look at your traffic. Now over to you. Smoking is more deadly for hiv positive patients than the virus itself. Researchers looked at nearly 3,000 hiv patients from 1995 to 2010 a found risk of early death from cancer or Heart Disease was higher among those infected smokers than those not inspected infected. When you made the new years resolution to lose some pounds you may not have to because being slightly overweight may help you live longer. Researchers looked at data on nearly 3 million adults around the world and it compared the body mass index measurement of weight in relation to height to the risk of dying younger. And the study found that a little extra weight they had people with that had a 6 chance of theory being of dying risk of dying young than those with a considerable normal weight. So when you are in your 60s, you may think about retirement but an australian couple have not even thought about this. They have a active 2013. They are gearing up to run 365 marathons this year. One every day. Every day . Yeah. Crazy but they want to promote a healthy sustainable lifestyle as they set off to cover nearly 10,000 miles around the country and raise money for various charities. They have not always been in fine form. 20 years ago, i wouldnt be able to run one city block i couldnt run more than 100 meters. And since then i lost about 23 kilograms, 50 pounds, and i feel so much better. Not only that but i get a younger man without the divorce. Thats like five stones. Thats true. 10 years ago she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer and given 6 months to live. She believes eating raw vegan food saved her life and they will rely on that diet to fuel the 365 marathons. Surely they are going to be allowed to walk . I would think so. Thats incredible. Thats a strain on your body. Stay tuned for that. Let the salty language fall on the job and you could end up with a perching slip. How employers view the potty mouth and how it could lead to firing. And the controversial filmmaker is changing his ways. Hear what Michael Moore is giving up for 2013. Thanks for staying with us. Be it the boss coworkers or customers. More people have a laundry list of reasons to swear on the job. Of course. Word of potty mouth travels fast even if no one says anything at the time you could be racking up a record. Employers cite swearing as one reason for firing 38 of the time. Foul language can come across aggressive and create a hostile Work Environment. A lot of times, we use inappropriate language to sort of reenforce what we are saying. And ideally if we are professional we can find other appropriate words that are just as intense. There is no good place in a Work Environment to cuss ever. Thats blankety blank right. Whether in the meeting room or board room or chatting down the hallway. 51 of employees say they have cursed at work. Try coming to the newsroom. But only half of those say they did it in front of their boss. 57 of employers say they would be less likely to promote a potty mouth so we want to know what you think about swearing in the workplace. Head to our Facebook Page and let us know what you feel. Theres been an effort the newsroom to stop the cursing on the job. Really . Yeah theres a swear jar thats empty. Its empty. But its new year. 150th anniversary of one of the greatest documents signed by a u. S. President. How the Postal Service is honoring the emancipation proclamation ending slavery in our country. Two men are called heros for breaking up a robbery. How the quick thinking helped save a man being attacked on the street. And its cold out there this morning. But its going to get colder. I will tell you when coming up. Reporter interstate 97 is nice and clear. But we have a crash on route 50. I will have details coming up on good morning maryland. New this morning, a los angeles photographer died while trying to snap pictures of a ferrari believed to be owned by justin bieber. It happened tuesday in l. A. And police say that the paparazzi was hit by a vehicle after taking photos of a white ferrari. California Highway Police say that the car was stopped by police in the same area that day. We are told that they confirm the man was killed on a roadway he was a paparazzo and chasing biebers ferrari. Authorities say bieber was not in the car at the time of the traffic stop. Its been 150 years since the signing of the emancipation proclamation and in honor of that, the u. S. Postal service unveiled a stamp commemorating the document. Eye features fame it features familiarous words famous words from the document. It was signed january 1st, 1863. It freed all slaves in the confederate states. New years resolution we make them and break them and apologize for them sometimes. But take movie director Michael Moore. The controversial filmmaker listed the 10 resolutions on huffington post. Com among them, he no longer supports the troops. Moore says 9 11 got people to enlist but the military works on many fronts that have nothing to do with defending americans. Moore apologized for the comment saying he has Great Respect for the troops and blamed lawmakers for sending them to invade other countries based on lies. I am not sure why that makes sense he is not going to support them. But. He is Michael Moore. All right. We will move on. So stay with us. You can call it a unique way to bring in the new year. Clothing option for one optional for one man. What he was carrying. You will be scratching your head this morning. And the bond between twins is very special. And now these two sisters have even more in common. We will tell you how they welcome 2013 when good morning maryland continues. Reporter good morning. Topping americas money, wall street reacting to the cliff deal. A rally expected this morning after the budge breakthrough in washington. But the joy may be shortlived because other issues are still unresolved. Chief among those, that debt ceiling. The government has hit the limit on borrowing and a impasse on extending that limit is likely. Energy drinks promise to give a mental and physical edge but theproof is lacking. New york times reports theres little Scientific Evidence to back up the claims. A researcher says you can get the same boost from a cup of coffee but doesnt taste as gule. And a mannish retailer is the third richest billionaire second richest bill gates and 63 bill and mexican telecommunication magnet carlos slam with 75 billion. Thats americas money. I am paula faris. Youre watching the station that works for you. Now, good morning maryland. With the deadline passed, lawmakers a deal on avoiding the fiscal cliff. How will it affect you . This morning we will look in a live report. It was supposed to be a night of celebration but a young girl is clinging to life after a bizarre new years celebration. With the new year comes new rules regarding your health insurance. We will tell you what to expect as the Affordable Health care act begins taking effect. Those stories on this wednesday morning. Thanks for joining us. And happy new year. I am megan prink neil a lot to get pringle. A lot to a lot to get to. Lynette you are back from vacation and you have a message. People have to bundle up. You are right. I am sending a message this morning. As we go through time, i will sen the message as well. Before we talk about the tem send the message as well. Before we talk