kevin? kevin: michelle, this is day five in the search for nicole mittendorff. i can tell you the weather is cooperating. but the search area is still quite large. this is a map of shenandoah national park. skyline drive cuts across the mountain ridge for a hundred miles. but this area i m circling is the spot that the crews focus the effort on. this is because the black dot represents a park ranger saturday evening found nicole mittendorff s 2009 mini cooper abandoned. close to a hundred people from more than a dozen state, local and non-profit agencies are now on the ground here at shenandoah. there is a makeshift command post tracking the search crews in real time with the g.p.s. technology. the park service has placed yellow tape at many of the trail heads here to ensure hikers do not hamper the operation by accident. as of an hour ago the authorities told me the search dogs go but no one has stumbled across any physical evidence such as mittendorff s clothing or jewelry.
handled the sex scandal in particular. reporter: there are several contenders but no clear front runner. who among this body has the qualifications, the characteristics, the spiritual gifts to fill that chair. reporter: pope benedict appointed half the cardinals that will choose his successor. the vatican hopes to have a new pope by easter at the end of the month. at the vatican, anna batangra. angelo scola, and cardinal mark polet, are in the running. the pope s decision stunned the local catholic community. rochelle richie has reaction from catholics and the arch bishop. reporter: this news is very unexpected and many parisheners is very surprised. parishioner are stunned that pope benedict is stepping down. the only thing i m thinking is he may be sick. reporter: it s been more than 600 years since the pope has resigned. this afternoon at the archdiocese, arch bishop lori is thanking the pope for his nine years of service. the arch bishop says that the pope
morning. here s meteorologist lynette charles. it is megan. it s cold throughout. it s colder than what it was yesterday morning and temperatures are a lot colder. we re talking about 21 degrees in reisterstown. so yesterday we were above average. today, we are below average. we should be at 25, 26 degrees now for this time of the year for our low temperatures. reisterstown coming in below that and we have the winds to talk about today as well. they will be out of the northwest at about 8 miles an hour. that s what we re seeing now in glen burnie. coming in at 22. and we are at 19. this is your actual temperature in manchester. and we do have a northwest wind at 14 so we re feeling more like the single digits in man chest they are morning. you really need to bundle up as you head out and about. let s switch over and what s going on on maryland s most powerful radar and we are nice and dry. this is doing to be dry for a while. and then we ll see change in the forecast. speak
national captioning institute www.ncicap.org you re watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, late-breaking. this is 11 news today at 5:00 a.m. good morning. i m mindy basara. and i m stan stovall. thanks for joining us for 11 news today. there has been more snow in an unusual place. arizona. two inches of snow on the 18th green. i ve been out there a couple of times when it snowed. people would run out of their houses. there are kids that have never seen snow from phoenix. and the maryland no snow. we have the cold this morning but knows no no sn ow. 23 at the airport with little wind. we will make it up to 39 this afternoon with a few clouds. we have some rain and maybe some snow in the seven-day forecast. a busy start on the northeast corner of the beltway. all lanes are temporarily blocked because of a tractor- trailer accident. that is causing some closures. we are watching for delays around harford. we are seeing southbound delays on 95. 55 on the north side
nicolle, we know at this time there are multiple people injured and we know from three law enforcement sources that preliminarily there are double digits the amount of people injured as a result of this shooting called in at 2:34 p.m. today. this shooting happened at the office complex where this newspaper is. law enforce. has not confirmed the shooting happened inside the newspaper offices, but we know from the reporters at the paper say the shooting happened inside their office. we re going off of those reports for that information. at this time, this is always preliminary information. this is always information that is subject to change. we don t have any reports of confirmed fatalities. there have been some reports that there are have been some deaths as a result of the shooting. at this point we don t have that confirmed. i just talked to the public spokesperson for the ems just a few minutes ago and he said that at this point he hadn t had any confirmed fatalities r