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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy If you want to know what makes MSNBC's "Morning Joe" so much better than anything else on morning TV, check out this video of a discussion Monday morning about President Obama's awful failure to marshall support for even the most tepid gun reform. First of all, hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough were not only absolutely transparent about the way in which they were piggybacking Maureen Dowd's brilliant Sunday column in the New York Times, they celebrated her and her words.

Bundle up if you have early morning activities planned Sunday. The National Weather service has issued a freeze warning from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sunday for Frederick, Carroll, Harford, Northern Baltlimore County and Howard. The areas, including Columbia and Westminster, could see temperatures in the low 30s, which has the potential to damage sensitive plants and crops.

The Harford County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man who robbed a Bel Air area gas station and convenience store at gunpoint Friday morning. A robbery in Creswell Friday afternoon that led to a brief chase and a serious crash on Route 40 in Joppa may be related, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The search for this morning's robber also led to a brief lockdown at a nearby high school and also kept the Sheriff's Office busy all day fending off rumors there had been a shooting at the school, a sheriff's spokesperson said.

Among the 78 calls for medical, fire and rescue service the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department received during the period April 7-14 were the following: 100 Kenwood Avenue, 2:34 a.m. April 11. Crews from the Arbutus, English Consul and Lansdowne volunteer stations and Catonsville, Halethorpe, Randallstown, Westview and Woodlawn career stations responded to the report of a fire on the campus of the Western School of Technology and Environmental Science....

The Baltimore City Department of Transportation says it will implement temporary lane closures along a portion of Pratt Street for construction work beginning on Monday morning. Officials say two lanes of Pratt Street will be closed to through traffic at the intersection of Eutaw Street from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Then at 3 p.m., a single lane of through traffic will remain closed along Pratt Street throughout the night. The closures will be performed weather permitting. Adrienne Barnes, a public affairs specialist for the department, said the closures will allow crews to patch the roadway where utility work has been performed.

Several crashes slowed the Baltimore area's morning commute Friday as motorists navigated heavy rain. A single-vehicle crash in Anne Arundel County closed the shoulder of the inner loop of Interstate 695 at Route 295 as of 7:20 a.m., according to the state Department of Transportation. Also, in Harford County, a two-vehicle collision closed the shoulder of southbound Interstate 95 near the exit for Route 152 as of 7:52 a.m., officials said. Luke.Broadwater@baltsun.com Twitter.com/lukebroadwater

An early morning blaze destroyed eight apartments in the Hickory Hills condominium complex in Bel Air Friday morning, displacing 20 residents of the building, according to fire investigators. Damage to the building and its contents is estimated at $1.5 million, the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said. The fire in the three-story, 18-unit apartment type building was reported around 2:45 a.m. in the 100 block of Seevue Court, with fire coming from all three floors, according to Rich Gardiner, spokesman for the Harford County Volunteer Fire & EMS Association who was on the scene.

With blood still streaked on the doorway of a Southwest Baltimore home where a man was shot earlier in the morning, a woman who rented a room there nonchalantly recalled hearing the four shots. "After the first shot, I screamed and dropped to my knees and ran upstairs," said the woman, who identified herself as Cheryl Nancy, 25. Two of her four children stood on the front stoop, near a pack of cigarettes and a flask-sized bottle of vodka. It's not the first such incident of violence she's seen.

Cups of coffee warming their hands, the two women hovered over pansies. "I'm looking at the colors that remind me of my grandmother's garden. I'm deciding between the yellow and the white," said Malinda Peeples of Bolton Hill. "I'll probably get them both. " There was still a little room in her bags as Peeples made the rounds on Sunday, the first morning of the season at the city's farmers' market. "I got olive oil, milk, eggs and flour and cilantro. And we got our coffee, of course, at Zeke's," she said.

A spell of cold mornings in the Baltimore area set at least one weather record, and was close to matching others with three consecutive days dropping into the 20s overnight. On Tuesday, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport dropped to 28 degrees, missing the record low of 23 degrees in 1907, according to the National Weather Service. Wednesday, it got even colder at BWI, with a low of 27 tying a record mark most recently reached in 1985. Thursday morning appears to have been the coldest of all, with a low of 25 degrees early this morning, according to preliminary data.