lou dobbs s take on that straight ahead. that has some fraction. melissa: lori: let s head to the stock exchange and nicole petallides. stocks hitting their earlier losses. nicole: back in the green for the dow jones industrial average up four points after yesterday s loss of 40 points. some traders talking about holidays and lighter volume and discounting the fact that yesterday we sold off and upwards trend for the major averages so we do see the s&p and nasdaq going back a little bit. one thing that helped things along was homebuilder sentiment index. nice numbers and the six year high highest in september and rose the fifth straight month in a row. apple good news for apple shareholders, 70144 all time new high for apple over the i phone 5 which has been selling out, record sales for the i phone 5 when you walk into the store sept. 20 first. that is one we will continue to watch through the end of the week into next. lori: apple not charging ahead. won t get more later th
live, local, late breaking, this is wbal tv 11 news at 5:00 p.m. in hd. good evening, everybody, stan stovall. and duyn dawn hamilton. thank you for joining and i am donna hamilton. thank you for joining us. most, if not all of the school systems, will take it slow, choosing to open on a delayed basis tomorrow morning. tim tooten has more on the story. one of the biggest problems in baltimore county has been how to park school buses and then figure are how to keep them moving on narrow and snow- covered sidestreets. that is one reason why baltimore county is starting late. we also wanted to have that delay so that children would be able to get to school during daylight hours and also to avoid the morning rush-hour. anything we can do to make the travel to and from school easier and safer, we re going to do that. in howard county, the principal, staff members and even the county executive were trying to dig out sidewalks near owings mills high school. this is