Stadium tunnel. And an emotional day for students and Sandy Hook Elementary School. As they prepare to take the next step now in the healing process and head back to class. Thats coming up on this thursday, january 3rd. Good morning maryland. Im charlie crowson. And im megan pringle, thanks so much for joining us this morning. First the weather because it is chilly out there. Lynette is starting by with whats going on out there. The cold air has settled in. It has. Good job charlie. It is invading us right now. We are feeling it. 26 degrees in elkton. Bundle up as you head out the door. Layers i suggest and very dry air for today as well. Look at the dew point 14. Thats some dry air. Thats some wood splitting air. Clarksvilles temperature coming in at 27 degrees right now with that dew point after 17. Of 17. And we have temperatures elsewhere like manchester coming in at 20 degrees right now and annapolis 28. Huntingtown more of the same. So this is a picture on marylands most powerful radar. We are nice and dry and we will stay that way as we head throughout the day. We do have those clouds out there this morning but with all the dry air they will begin to erode as we head through time. When you wake up around 7 00, 10 00, temperatures will be right around 30 degrees. By lunchtime 35 degrees. Lets get a check now of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. Good morning. Good morning lynette. Well, the temperatures are low but the speeds are high. No delays here on interstate 70. Its nice and clear from columbia pike all the way over to695. If you are heading out to the beltway. This is what the northwest corner looks like at old court road. No problems whatsoever. Youre looking at a normal eight minute ride right now on the outer loop from 795 all the way down to 70. As we take a look at the other abc2 timesaver traffic drive times, no problems to report on thof 695. Youre looking at an 1 minute ride right now on the outer loop from 95 all the way up to 83. And 95 going to be in great shape. You are looking at just a 12 minute ride from columbia all the way do downtown baltimore. Megan and charlie, over to you. We have breaking news out of northeast baltimore this morning. Two people are dead in a house fire. Five other people managed to escape including a pregnant woman. Abc2 news linda so has been following the story. She joins us live this morning with the latest details. Reporter firefighters now wrapping things up here. You can see theyre wrapping up the hoses. The fire has been out for about four hours now. And about an hour ago the medical examiner took the bodies to the office and hell be performing an autopsy to determine how the two people died in this fire. Were told that it was actually two men who died. Five other people including a pregnant woman escaped. The first victim was found inside the house an the first floor. The second victim was discovered right outside in the back of the house by the basement door. Were hearing reports that this victim may have initially gotten out but may have been trying to go back outside when he died. This fire broke out just after 11 30 last night in the 3,000 block of montebello terrace just to give you some perspective here. Right off harford road behind the safeway. When firefighters got here the fire was so intense they initially were not able to go inside. Second alarm was called and firefighters eventually made it in and thats when they discovered the body of the first victim. Now the five people who made it out including the pregnant woman all had nonlife threatening injuries. Three were taken to a nearby hospital to be evaluated. Fire and arson investigators do remain here on scene this morning to try to determine a cause. We do not know yet if this home had working fire detectors. The Fire Department wants to remind you if you need a Smoke Detector in your house, just call 311. Firefighters will come out and put one in for free. Linda so, abc2 news. New this morning president barack obama officially signed a bill averting the fiscal cliff. It raises taxes on the wealthiest americans while preserving tax cults for most american households. The bill also extends expiring jobless benefits and prevents cuts to medicare reimbursements and delays for two months billions of dollars in across the board spending cuts in defense and domestic programs. The president signed the bill using the autopen. Its a mechanical device mimicking his signature. The end of the era here in baltimore. When ray lewis walks through the tunnel for the baltimore, it will probably for the last time. Jamie costello has more on the last dance at the bank for lewis. Reporter sunday we will rise before one. Focus in on the tunnel. See smoke and think nothing but memories. Today i told my team that this will be my last ride. Reporter we will watch him shimmy to the left and the right, toss a cup of grass in the air. It will be the greatest dance weve seen since martins west. Definitely been like a brother to me. Its been bigger than football between he and i. Reporter 17 years of all the hits from a man who wanted to know what time it is. It was here on pratt street 12 years ago i coaxed him off the back of the hummer to do his ray in the middle of pratt street. Watch this everybody let her rip ray [ cheering and applause ] yes yes ray lewis mvp. I think we all get to enjoy what sunday will feel like. You know knowing that you know, this that will be the last time 52 plays in the uniform and ravens stadium. Reporter a man who rehabbed his life like no other after his atlanta scare. I wanted to be known differently and make men better and figure out ways to challenge men to not let the game dictate your emotions and not let the game dictate if youre mad or glad or sad. No, no, be who you are as a man. Walk what you are with who you are as a man and be okay with being a man. Reporter of listening to him you wanted after listening to him you wanted to put pads on. He has been the inspirational leader sense 1996 when he landed here. Im going to give you everything i got because this is our last one and wherever it ends, it ends. But i didnt come back for it to end in the first round. Reporter come sunday he will enter the ravens den to perform his last dance and when he leafs he will leave as the greatest middle linebacker we have ever seen. Nobody will wear 52 in this town for this team again. Jamie costello reporting there. If you know anything about lewis, so passionate about the game and his teammates and about the community and you know the reason for retiring is so he can spend more time with his family. In honor of the last dance there are commemorative shirts being sold. Take a look at this. They were created by nightmare graphics a company in columbia. And retailers are picking up shipments of the shirt this morning and they can likely start being sold at many stores today. Keep your eye out. Thats what it looks like. All right, right now, it is eight minutes after 5 00 and a new year and a new start for students from Sandy Hook Elementary School going to start classes today but in an entirely different building. Desks have been taken from the newly refurbished school into a nearby town along with backpacks and oblongsings left behind following that shooting in december. Parents and students got a chance to check out the new building yesterday. Its a middle school and it has been outfitted with rugs and furniture similar to those at sandy hook to help ease the transition for students who start today. Security measures have also been increased with the new system incorporating more cameras and locks. The 113th congress for the u. S. Is now being sworn in today. Theyll convene on the capitol hill at noon and then Vice President joe biden will hold the ceremonial swearing in of the u. S. Senators. Here are some facts about the incoming class. The new congress will have 20 female senators the most ever in u. S. History and for the first time it will boast an all female delegation for a state. That being new hampshire. Bald win will become the nations first openly gay u. S. Senator. They left without a vote on it and angered a lot of people. New York Lawmakers say House Speaker john boehner has promised votes or aid to sandy victims by january 15th. The speaker scheduled the first vote for tomorrow for a 9 billion bill in flood insurance. The remaining 51 billion in the package will be voted on in the next two weeks. The decision to cancel the vote outraged lawmakers from new york and new jersey and members from his own state. Time now for a check on the weather. Over to meteorologist lynette charles. Chilly out there. It is cold it there this morning. Megan its going to stay that way throughout the day. Not going to be dealing with any type of precip. We have some snow to the north and rain to the south. That stays away from us throughout the day as High Pressure will build in and do its thing. Right now what were dealing with is just the cloud cover across the area. But with that dry air, thats going to get out of here as well. Now this is the school day the kids heading out to the bus stop this morning really bundle them up because the temperature at 27 degrees and even as we go through the afternoon temperatures only warming up about ten degrees. Its going to be cold. Lets get a check now of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. Good morning. Good morning lynette. Very cold out there. Very, very cold. Well, if you are traveling on 95 white marsh some better news. No problems whatsoever heading downtown. Going to take you just 14 minutes to travel from the beltway all the way into the city. 695 also going to be in great shape. No problems from parkville all the way up to towson and as we check in and take a live look outside here at hunt valley 83 traffic moving right along. But you wont have any problems once you make your way on to the jfx and head all the way downtown. Thats a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic. Megan and charlie, over to you. Ten minutes after 5 00 right now. And another country is taking a stand against overly thin models. Yeah, which nation is now taking the latest ban on teeny tiny models and what requirements they must now meet if they want to walk the runway. Frosty the snowman just got supersized. Were going to show you a mans giant snow creation complete with tires for buttons. Lets say you want to get ahead in your career. How do you get from here. To here . At university of phoenix were moving Career Planning forward so you can start figuring that out sooner. Ln fact, by thinking about where want your education to lead, while youre still in school, you might find the best route. Leads somewhere you werent even looking. Lets get to work. If youre stuck with snow you may as well have some fun with it. Absolutely. And you cant miss the fun that one had and this is why. This guy is 36 and a half feet tall. Check him out. Two years ago he built the first one and it was only 35 feet tall. Oh. I know. Last winter though enough snow that he built a giant snowman and now look hat this its back and bigger than ever. About 30 people met at the farm to help him build it. I have a crawler, we have a hay elevator we modnied up to stake modified up to take the snow better. Yeah every year venn, hes got the knack of making things bigger and better every year. They got the plows out and the backhoes. I thought they were all out there doing it by hand. 36 feet i dont know about that. When people come by to take pictures they can bring by a canned food item and drop it in the button, which is really a tire. Hes already released and sent 65 pounds of food. Theres the perspective on that. I love his nose is a cone. I knew the plows were helping. Theres no way. Are you calling shenanigans . No, i like it though. I like it. Its awesome and i like how he fit the cone. But no snow all i can show you is the expects this morning guy temperatures this morning guys. But look the entire nation basically under the deep freeze except drum roll please. Move the banner. Look at miami. 70 degrees. Now would you rather be in 70 degree weather or boston where were seeing 8 degrees . So we definitely do have the contrasting of the air masses there. But close back home, were cold. Were getting in on the cold action. 21 degrees right now in manchester and at 26 in baltimore. 28 in annapolis right now. Beltsville more of the same. Across the Eastern Shore were looking at the temperature at 26 galena. 27 denton and cambridge coming in at 29 degrees right now. Throughout the day temperatures not going to move that much. Were still going to see below average. Now the satellite and radar not picking up on a whole lot. Again the snow well oftest north and the rain well down to the south. We are going to stay in the middle and High Pressure is going to be building in so well stay dry and get plenty of sunshine throughout the day. And that trend is going to continue so watch whats going to happen here. Not a whole lot. The sunshine moves into tomorrow as well. And even through the weekend were seeing some dry weather ahead. So this is what we have for the planner for today. Mostly sunny skies. We will be crisp. High temperature coming in at 37 degrees. And you can see as we go into friday, well be at 40. By saturday 41. Temperatures beginning to slowly move up to seasonable levels. So game time looks really good. Were having that High Temperature on sunday coming in at 43 degrees. Lets get a check now of the abc2 timesaver traffic with lauren cook. Good morning. How are the roads looking . Good morning lynette. So far so good out on 95. There are no delays traveling from elkridge to downtown baltimore the stretch altogether will take you the normal 12 minutes. And if you are heading down to d. C. , it will be nice and clear. No problems whatsoever. Now if you are using 695 no problems at Baltimore National pike. And as we head up to pikesville, this is what it looks like right at green spring avenue. Traffic moving right along it will be nice and clear as you head up to 83. Speaking of 83, if you are using that to get downtowns this what it looks like just north of 695. Normal 11 minute ride right now southbound from the beltway all the way down to fayette street. Thats a look at your abc2 timesaver traffic. Megan and charlie, over to you. As the ball drop in times square you promised to lose 50 pounds by to end of the year and give up smoking by friday. Its january 3rd and you havent set foot in a gym and back to the pack a day habit. Why so hard . Its because youre not keeping it simple. You need to be specific. And instead of saying you want to go on the diet for the new year, make some small changes in your daily eating habits. Think about giving up soda. If you want to quit smoking dont quit cold turkey because its not going to happen. Instead gradually cut back decreetsing a cigarette or two every week. A new israeli law is taking an eating distorts and its banning underweight models from cat walks as well as commercials. The law used body mass imtex to decide who can model and who cannot. Anyone with a bmi less than 18. 5. Theyre out. Spain and australia have already set minimum weight limits for certain fashion shows. Well, Police Officers in one town are being hold they cant go to the told they cant go to the dennys anymore if theyre on the job. Now the restaurant chain is offering an apology to five officers it embarrassed. Hauntingly Beautiful Image capturing the miracle of birth and this picture is getting a lot of attention online. The story on this when good morning maryland continues. New years clutter is no match for someone with big ideas. With a new project in mind, some howto knowledge to give us an edge, and more savings down every aisle. It only takes a few twists and turns for those bright ideas to make the new year even brighter. More saving. More doing. Thats the power of the home depot. Start fresh and save with hdx 20 gallon totes, a special buy at just 5. 88 a piece. Well, as any mother can tell you giving birth can be a blur. Is that true . Vow heard that . It is true. At least it was for me. But every so often a picture brings it into Crystal Clear focus and you have to see this one. Its incredible. Its beautiful. Unborn baby reaches out of her mothers womb and holds on to the finger of the doctor performing her csection delivery. Few lives will be as well documented as neveahs. Thats for sure. Her mother a professional photographer, however her dad randy snapped the photograph. The doctor called me over and said hey shes grabbing my finger. I just ran over and grabbed shot and i was in awe looking at it. How nervous that you were going to miss it . Very nervous. She gave her doctor a canvas print of the photo and after thousands of likes on facebook shes even gotten a few offers to buy the photograph. Shes going to hang a big vincas print of the picture in her room. I have never seen anything like that. So cool. Well coming up this morning one of modern familys star is now pushing for Marriage Equality for all. Were going to hear from Jesse Tyler Ferguson and how he is using his experiences growing up as a guy man to fight for the cause gay man to fight for the cause. And rapper jayz is known for creating some edgy songs. You may be surprised to know that hes doing the score for a big blockbuster due out this year. And temperatures are at freezing or below freezing this morning. But a slight warmup is on the way. Ill have the details coming up. Bring on the warmup lynette. Well, traffic is moving right along here on 695 at Baltimore National pike. Ill let you know wait looks like what it looks like on 95 and 83 coming up on good morning maryland. Rapper jayz is reportedly composing the score for the latest film adapt take of the great gatsby. The producer of the bullet revealed this news on twitter. He posted they had been working on the score for a number of months. The movie stars leonardo dicaprio, Carrie Mulligan and toety maungier. One of the stars of the tv show modern family is joining the fight for Marriage Equality in illinois. Jesse Tyler Ferguson was in chicago to show his support of same sex marriage in the state. Ferguson and his modern family character are both openly gay. Its something that ive grown a thick skin for. You know i certainly respect everyones right to their own opinion but i think at the end of day we have to agree that treating any american as a second class citizen is just not okay and you know putting the rights and civil rights and the hands of the majority for those in the minority is just not okay. The proposal will go before the state senate this week. If it passes illinois will be the tenth state to recognize same sex marriage. The first same sex couples got married here in maryland after midnight on january 1st. One man says whats good for the goose is good for the gander. After a newspaper prints the names of gun owners in one state is reader has turned the tables now that paper is hiring protection. And a plane is diverted after one of its passengers on board gets sick and now investigators want to know how she died before that flight was able to even touch down. Good morning everyone, topping americas money, wall street will look to build on the stellar start to 2013. The dow soaring 308 points after the fiscal cliff deal and keep on eye on this month. The market direction for january has predicted the rest of the year about three quarter of the time. Moodys Credit Rating agency has a new warning for congress. Come up with a plan to shrink the deficit or the Credit Rating could be cut. And asus is buying zip car. Their smart phone apps help renters locate cars around cities can College Campuses instead of the traditional rental counter. At starbucks today reusable plastic cups to cut down on trash. And giving customers a ten Cent Discount for every refill so the cup pays for itself after using it roughly ten times. And thats americas money, im paula faris