The sups. Diving into icy water. Polar bear plunge weekend is here. The super plungers including our very own Jennifer Franciotti, have been plunging on the hour every hour for 24 hours, doing it to raise money for Special Olympics athletes. Hello, everybody. Welcome to 11 news saturday morning. Im kate amara with john collins. This is one of our favorite saturdays of the year. Yes. Lots of activity going on. Cold at the beach. Comfortable here at the studio, and you can take the plunge, too. Using a digit on the telephone pad. Well explain in a minute. The wind chill out there is 14 degrees. I said if youre wet, is it colder . If your skin is wet, it is going to be colder than if your skin were dry. Patapsco at the bay. The air temperature at the beach is 26. But with that north wind at 13, when you get away from obstructions and everything else, you have an effective wind chill of 14. For those of you going to the public plunges, they start at 10 00, some flurries are in the forecast
Stan . We had some flurries driving in but not going to be anything but flurries. One benefit. Because we have this include deck overhead, its held the temperatures up a little bit. So its not as bitterly cold this morning. Our readings are mostly in the low to mid temperatures. Ive got the satellite in hear. You see a lot of overcast. Gray shading over the midatlantic reading. This is a little second impulse. Its not lakeeffect snow. Its just a second impulse coming along the flow in the upper atmosphere. Its coming out of the great lakes. So we may see a little bit of this off and on but its not accumulatingtype snow. Well see breaks in the clouds. The trend temperaturewise over the next few days is up, up, up. Well talk about that coming up in a few minutes. Well take that, john. Well, Mother Nature wants to make sure we dont forget what season were in. News reporter george is telling us how people are coping. The snow couldnt have come at a worse time. The flakes started falling wi
Captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill. Even if lebron is not his new best friend, im sure there are plenty of people after learning about that 75,000 payout who would love to be his friend. I love this. He didnt take a traditional shot. He wound up making the hook shot. Which you have to do if you have that opportunity. Theres no way youre making it with a traditional shot. You have to go all in. Then he got lebron james hanging out with you. Great shot. Not bad. Weve got a lot to get to. Well show you more of that. Including, well talk about the cold snap that wont go away. But there is something heating up the markets. Thats a good thing. Making a lot of people happy. Yeah. The dow getting close to a record high. The nasdaq and the s p are soaring, as well. This amid positive signs about the economy, housing rebounding, and companies hiring. So is it too late if you want to jump into the stock
Id they can place on their shirts. As you go through the building, it will have the name, the location where they are going, the time they came in. The School System has spent 4 million equipping Elementary Schools with equipment. In some cases, police will be able to monitor cameras. Besides the new measures, the School Resource officers will continue to use wants where they where they suspect there are problems. Those were issued last year after the shooting. They will not change much in the coming year. They are armed. They are a fullfledged lease officer. They have all the rights and responsibilities of a Police Officer within the school. Will continue to rely on staff and students to handle cre on what they see, hear, and post on social media. We want students to report to us, report to any adult, trusted adult, and then we institute are standing procedures of calming the student down, investigating the nature of why the students name was given to us. In the meantime, robert gladd
Time well spent. You need to get the word out and understand exactly what it is and what it isnt. Click students across the state will try their hand that common core in the form of a new test in the spring. To learn more, log onto our , a clickwbaltv. Com on educational or. Tim tooten, wbaltv 11 news. Eastdouble shooting in baltimore has turned deadly. We have confirmed one of the shot around 2 00 yesterday on East Monument street has died and he has been hersey. Ed as david the other victim is expected to recover. A 10,000 dollar cash reward is being offered for the arrest and indictment of the person responsible for a deadly hit and run accident that happened earlier this year in anne arundel county. Just before 9 30 p. M. , two teenagers were struck by a vehicle on mountain in pasadena and one of the fit domes thomas a 15yearold boy, died as a result of the injuries and the other, a girl was treated and released. They are trying to locate the driver who was in a 19972002 Ford Exped