People. According to the National Retail federation, 10 of all gifts will be returned. Experts predict today will be the top five shopping days. Last year shoppers spent more than 7 b amazon is offering a tv marked down 40 . Best buy cutting the price of a camera to 129. 99. And a cashmere sweater from bloomingdales now 89. 99. This shopping season has been the worst since 2008. It was dammenned dammenned by hurricane sandy, the new town shooting and the fiscal cliff. Sales increased only 7 10ths of a. Experted expected it to increase to 3 to 4 . We want it hear from you. Have you been waiting for hanukkah and christmas to pass to pick up the sales. Will you be heading to the mall over the next few days. Well, have you ever left homeland forgot on it close your garage or worse, come home to an overflowing toilet. Angies list home Automation System. Reporter it can integrate all the systems of your house. She and her family were moving into a house her grandmother had lived in for 4345
martin o malley, senator cardin and barbara mikulski. roosevelt leftwich is live at the corner of charles and pratt. have thing s eased up. reporter: the streets that were closed are back open. as you can see, this is pratt street right at charles. it s very, very heavy traffic. most of it is rush hour. there were so many ways people had to get around that it cause lad lot of slow and heavy traffic. take a look at some of the pictures we shot earlier. these is lombard street. what happened was all the trucks had to go around. the cars were backed up. it was difficult for people to get around the closures involved south charles street and light street. light street was kept open until just before the president s arrival and they closed it off and closed a lot of the traffic until about a quarter to 3:00. the president was inside the hotel for about an hour and a half. the motorcade left about 4:30. what you re seeing are the leftovers. if you re waiting for someone to come h
kent county and cecil county. there is clearing to the west. carroll county clearing out. howard county clearing out. more rain surging out of the south from the western shore going eastward. our visibilities are low, a little midwest mixing in with the rain. drive with care once you cross the route 50 bridge. temperatures around 50. we re headed into the 40s. cloudy wet conditions. we ll talk about how fast the sunshine comes back and where the temperature s headed coming up. dr. conrad murray was sentenced to the maximum sentence of four years behind bars in the death of michael jackson. jamie costello has more. reporter: the judge s words may be tougher than the sentence. the judge said it was medicine madness that led to the death of the king of pop and that the 58-year-old murray show nod sense of remorse, no sense of false and that he is dangerous that murray should have walked away when the superstar promised to pay him $150,000 a month for daily doses of propofol.
so lets call on meteorologist wyatt everhart. mr.fix it. he is outside. wyatt? reporter: guys, no question about it. it is coming down lightly here now, i don t know how well you can see that in the light. but it s a wet night after a wet day across maryland. we re going to see this again tomorrow. take a look. flood concerns will continue not just tonight but through the day tomorrow. we have have widespread flood concerns especially on the northern and eastern shore right now. we ll keep that flood watch going for another 24 hours at least, most of the state. take a look at we go forward here, i want to show you the radar picture and right now, as we go this radar shot, you can see heavy rain on the western part of the state, way west, then those showers on the eastern shore. we have zoomed in radar view, as we go to that you can see relatively heavy rain on the northern eastern shore right up through cecil county and extending south into kent county now. that s where we
reporter: the partial shutdown of the faa is on the 12thday. that means projects like this half finished tower and this one are postponed because of the funding fight. already, 4000 employees are furloughed and 7000 out of work. airport safety inspectors are working, but they re not paid government has lost $200 million because airlines aren t able to collect taxes on ticket sales. that will increase the longer this goes on. don t let a billion dollars at a time when we re scrambling for every dollar that we can get left on the table because congress didn t act. reporter: at the heart of the stand off, 17.5 million in subsidies to airlines democrats want it extended and the republicans want it cut. reporter: the obama administration is pleading to get this resolved quickly. leave your vacations for a few hours, come back, congress. that doesn t seem likely. the white house and 70,000 employees want it done any way they can. jamie costello, abc2 news. well, a cou