them enough to go to police. it's when they realized their friend identified only as a 24- year-old hartford county teacher was well and had faked cancer for two years. >> she was saying she needed help with rent and flights to areas to get treatment. >> reporter: back to january 2010 when a police report said the unnamed suspect started telling people that she had cancer. overtime she went as far to say it was stage 4, had spread to her lungs and she had a 15% chance of survival. >> they had done several fund- raisers for her to help pay for things and they are saying they raised $10,000. >> reporter: the victims say they met the suspect at baker field elementary school in aberdeen. she went to such extremes as putting a feeding tube in. their families gave her cash and frequent flyer miles, organized fundraisers and their kids asked to pray. the story came down when her parents were thrown off by being invited to a holiday benefit. she admitted to faking the disease. they were for giving when the suspect said she had a mental problem but then pictures showing her partying popped up on facebook and that is when one victim went to police. >> charges will depend on what the detectives determine. >> reporter: we will not name the suspect unless she is charged. the victims say the kids in the classrooms suffered too. they keep asking when she will return. we can't didn't hear back from the school. if you have more information for investigator you are asked to contact the crime investigations unit. cheryl connor. >> what a story. all right. >> five former catholic school buildings will be turned over for other institutions to use as schools. today they gave the okay to rent them out. they say they picked the buildings where new education facilities won't threaten existing schools. 24 have been sold or leased. we will take you to the website, our website, you will see the list, the complete list of all the biologies, it's in the education section for you. we first told you at six about i 4th grade grader who created a hit list. tonight we hear from worried parents. administrators found the list and the school we are talking about is about a half hour south of annapolis. pamela brown visited the school, she has more. >> reporter: gin ger got a startling phone call from the school. the school where her sons attend. >> i was like are you kidding? here? this doesn't happen here. >> reporter: turns out their names were on a student's list titled kill list before being renamed people who are mean to me. her sons say the girl told them about it. >> she told my boys she had a killing list and that they were on it. >> reporter: officials say the list included 35 classmates and star game names like justin bieber. >> i wish they would have told everybody and most just the name its on the list. i know a lot weren't happy. >> reporter: the troop leader of the girl said she was a good student who loved to learn but was bullied by other students. another parent said she believes the list was just a way to get attention. >> it's a cry for help. >> reporter: the school suspended her but some think that is not enough. >> i think some of them would like her removed. >> reporter: this mother said she hopes this community will come together and offer support. >> i don't think that attacking is the right thing to do. >> that was pamela brown. counselors are helping the students who made the list. about 75 birds dead in the middle of the avenue. a van was driving past the marriott when a flock of bird attacked the van. the driver kept ongoing. there is no explanation for it. two local doctors face murder charges because of what police are calling botched abortions. they allegedly did illegal abortions at a secret facility during a 2010 investigation police say they found fetuses stashed in freezers. they face five counts of murder, riley one count. >> the we have interesting activity out here on the most powerful radar. let's zoom in a little bit. we had a round of snow showers earlier this afternoon. brief but they were out there, now we are getting another round. north of belaire toward delta. yeah, little winter shot up here toward the pennsylvania state line. quick moving, won't be around for long and won't add up to much. overnight tonight 32, freezing point. partly cloudy, still going to call for the flurries on and off and as we go through the day tomorrow quite the change as we get warm air out of the south that. will allow us up to 52, how field and how long probably two questions on your mind. we answer that coming up. >> all love scenes like this, soldiers back from the war. rushing to the arms of loved ones. this group home just in time to start the new year. pete takes us right there. >> i was pacing. about 4:30 i started pacing. i couldn't leave early and my friends that i work with, my bosses said could you let her go, she is driving us crazy and they said go. >> reporter: her boss will to say go because she knew she couldn't hold back a mother's love for her son. >> he is one of my best friends. when he was born my mother said i had no use for her anymore because i had my baby and we are very close. >> reporter: this is cathryn waiting on her best fine friend. her brother and she isn't alone. >> hi. welcome home. >> i don't get to come out often during the year but i make a point of coming a couple times during the holidays to just just do something and welcome them home for something they know i could never do and i appreciate what they are doing. >> reporter: still waiting. >> yeah. scene. soon. >> reporter: with her heartbeating fast. the moment was finally here. [applause] >> happy to have him home? >> yep. yes. >> reporter: for cathryn, i think it's safe to say, she is happy too. pete o'neal. >> welcome home sir. >> reporter: abc 2news. >> you know join the crowd, people -- i tell you -- cant have enough of those. all right the countdown to now year's is on and people in the big apple are getting ready for the bash. today officials threw confetti to test it. anywhere you plan to celebrate safety should be at the top of your list. if you plan to drink don't drink and drive. name a driver, get the number for a local cab company before you even head out for the night. stop drinking houring before you plan to get behind the wheel. if you have a family member impaired take the key away. there will be some changes with -- including event fencing around the inner harbor. >> find the space, people will be much more secure in those areas and make it easier for us to promote a safer, more ordererly venue. >> and they say there will be very visible police presence around the inner harbor all night long. and here is something we are hoping for in 2012. relief at the pump though we may not gett. the average cost this year up to $3.52. here it was just two cents lower, income tax year likely to be higher. >> this is the highest recorded average that we have seen for gas prices, not o here in maryland but also nationally. we love to say we hope to see the declines in 2012 but doesn't appear that whether be the case. >> the highest on may 5th when it was $3.98. the national average up to $3.25. we have tips to help you save. you know when gas prices so high first have you to watch the speed. every five miles you go over 60 like paying another 26-cents a gallon for gas. remove excess weight from the car. take it out 100 pounds of extra stuff can drop the gas by 2% and avoid idling, you can ice up to a quarter of a gallon by sitting in one place with the engine on. you read his message online. how a teen told the world of the sacrifices that he made and how he cheated death until this week. and when are needles popping up in a wal-mart? where people have been finding them. how a driver relies so much on the gps this story takes a deadly turn. first, a look at night line. >> coming up, children with severe behavioral problems but should they be put on drugs in. and a peek at the 40th anniversary of new year's rocking eve. that's coming up after the news. . this video has been all over the internet. a teen with a rare heart condition died this week but his storey inspired a lost us and aaron sat down with his family. she has more for us. >> reporter: ben starts his story telling the world about the heart condition he was born with, hcm. a heart muscle disease most couldn't tell he had. even when it showed. >> he was crossing the street at school and just dropped in the middle of the street from his heart condition and he was helped up and he just kept going and they laughed about it and he didn't take it -- he went with it. >> reporter: doctors didn't expect him to live past his early teens. the 18-year-old had a pace maker put in two years ago that gave him more energy, helped regulate his heart and stretched his limits letting him spend more time on the lake, travel through alaska with his grandparents and start making youtube videos. there were science his conditions were getting worse. >> he just was getting more tired and less able to do what he wanted to do. >> reporter: about a week before his death around the time he made this video his parents knew he was ready to go. >> he talked to us in person about being considered by that and having experienced the peace of god and not being afraid of his heart condition or of passing away. that we wouldn't be scared or sad and that we would have the same peace that he felt. knew we are just remembering the world joy the gave to us. >> reporter: today ben was laid to rest. his family said they will miss him and know his story will live on because of the video he posted on youtube. let's look at news around the nation. its been ten year its since the tragedies of september 11th and its been four months since since the memorial, already it's reached the major milestone. one million visitors from 120 different shields. next year the museum will be open completing the memorial. a wal-mart customer in one town made a shocking, possibly dangerous find in a shopping bag. a syringe. at least ten have been found in the barto county store. they have also been found in nightgowns and in the pocket of a shirt. at least four say they were pricked by them. >> dangerous and at some point they may be infected or -- have something in them that could hurt somebody. >> reporter: >> they haven't been able to lift fingerprints, a possible motive is a mystery here tonight. virginia state police say a woman play have rely lied on her gps to much and it may have been a mistake. it told her to make a left instead of crossing through the intersection. a few minutes later she met another car head on. neighbors are not surprised. >> i have seen tractor trailers go up that way. >> they will stop, pull over and then turn around and go back. >> i have ben mobiles go that way. >> reporter: troopers say the intersection has been studies bid dot and it's clearly marked. >> if you have an i-pad for christmas you may already have one or -- all of the online content is online 24 hours a day. abc2 has launched a new i-pad app. you can get baltimore's most accurate weather team, streaming video, it's easy to find and a search for wmar and i-tunes, you can visit the website for more details. >> now maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. . and pretty quiet, pretty cold for most of the night. you see your breath. you feel that chile. 33 now, one above the freezing mark and wind is calm. we have snow out there tonight. we had a few snow showers this it afternoon. we see snow showers pushing out of northeast and hartford up and toward rising sun. reminds us of a great song and port deposit -- a few flakes flying. indicates rain. i seriously doubt that. it's all light flakes, flying so to speak. you can see most -- we could get a few flurries in on the westside of town. most of it is to the north and up in pennsylvania. this round is right. let's look at some of the other weather. that line of -- more significant snow shower that came, not adding up to a lot baltimore didn't gett. elliot city -- a few floweries, pretty snow showers. up in man cheter, light burst of snow and look at this. some of the grassy surfaces, no trouble on the road but was pretty to look at. a few more of that tonight in -- temperatures running low 30s, 31 york, warmer at the beach. that warm air has been just south of us all day. just been stall stalled. you can see on the highs today. did reach mid40s in annapolis and dc. you go toward york and hagerstown and that's that sharp cut off. tomorrow the boundary will push north. we will be up near 50. 52 essex. it'll be a mildler day. tonight still a chance for a few hit or miss snow showers or flurries. mainly around the pennsylvania line. as we go through the wider perspective -- snow wrap around it. kicking out to the north and east. it'll affect states to the north and -- another system that will dive and bring us the chance for rain showers. here is that sharp cut off. mild air knocking on the air in virginia and again you will feel the difference of that warm air pushing the big chill out tomorrow and again just reflecting how much mild air is out there. this is what we are looking for. low to mid50s. some of this through the first day of 2012. the temperatures will head down next week. future trend showing basically increased clouds, late in the day and a chance for some rain showers, if those survive through the mountains to make it in late tomorrow night. we are dry and clear on saturday. that's looking like a great new year's eve and i think things will stay nice. a if you flurries, tomorrow 52 will be the two degree guarantee. tomorrow night couple of rain showers, patchy showers as we go to 42 and a lot of us may not see that. the weekend looking nice and mild. we keep the 50sa live through new year's day. first day of january, 55 degrees. you we do bring in some new cold fronts next week so we are back to reality. >> colder, 22. >> what a way to start the new year. thank you. >> you may have lost a son, sister, wife or brother. tonight we look back at the guys who made us cry. we lost pat modell, she was queen of giving to baltimore. nick and gracy -- the owner died at night. his wife in the morning. the owner of the red and white bags, we say good-bye to joe. we sang the -- bob bell for the man who sold us our cars, he would carry on the legacy of our [inaudible] in to the hands of connie bass, she too would pass. when locusd point and vince always knew what was going on and lee kirk. how sergeant shriver made the special other olympics better than special. and john mackey. he would ask you how it felt to make a super bowl. we took a hit when we learned he was gone way to early to say good-bye to orlando brown. james kelly ran it, sad loss for mount saint james. p -- connie died, how she fought such a courageous battle. if you had a baby in the last 40 years you knew etna. she was in charge of your room at the hospital. ernie tyler, guys like this stay bus forever. miss you honey. and the man in uniform that gave us -- made us laugh and cry on a summer night. no way he left us this way and ron smith, the radio clown is different now. how you made the call to live your life. and how about a funeral that gave us a reason to look back. our time to say we did it great. we may never see a good-bye like this ever again. william donald schaffer. why is -- playing in the background. because it was don's favorite song before he died. . here is what you do. you open the sham chain bootl like a pro. it's actually pretty easy. you take the -- the fire teams up and you find the seam in the bottle. >> find that vertical seam because the vertical seam where it goes -- where it goes around the bottle where it meets the glass lip is where the weakest point of the bottle is. you just tap it and it goes flying. ready to do this? one, two, three. >> and -- you can do it with a strong knife. how about that? watch, watch. pop the cork. there you go. i can't believet. i'm telling everybody to play with swords. just watch the broken glass. >> before you drink any. >> that's quite the trick. real quake take a look at radar. rising sun. we thought that was in new orleans. we know it's in cecil. slow showers there and overnight 32 with flurries, the outlook tomorrow we are back to near 50 in the an. . let's get the 50s. >> couple days worth. right in to the new year. get used to it. cold next. man: my electric bill was breaking the bank. so to save some money, i trained 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